François d'Aguilon, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

François d'Aguilon

architect, mathematician, physicist

Date of Birth: 04-Jan-1567

Place of Birth: Brussels metropolitan area, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium

Date of Death: 20-Mar-1617

Profession: writer, architect, physicist, mathematician, Catholic priest

Nationality: Belgium

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About François d'Aguilon

  • François d'Aguilon (also d'Aguillon or in Latin Franciscus Aguilonius) (4 January 1567 – 20 March 1617) was a Belgian Jesuit mathematician, physicist and architect. D'Aguilon was born in Brussels; his father was a secretary to Philip II of Spain.
  • He became a Jesuit in Tournai in 1586.
  • In 1598 he moved to Antwerp, where he helped plan the construction of the Saint Carolus Borromeus church.
  • In 1611, he started a special school of mathematics in Antwerp, fulfilling a dream of Christopher Clavius for a Jesuit mathematical school; in 1616, he was joined there by Grégoire de Saint-Vincent.
  • The notable geometers educated at this school included Jean-Charles della Faille, André Tacquet, and Theodorus Moretus. His book, Opticorum Libri Sex philosophis juxta ac mathematicis utiles, or Six Books of Optics, is useful for philosophers and mathematicians.
  • It was published by Balthasar I Moretus in Antwerp in 1613 and illustrated by the famous painter Peter Paul Rubens.
  • It included one of the first studies of binocular vision.
  • It also gave the names we now use to stereographic projection and orthographic projection, although the projections themselves were likely known to Hipparchus.
  • This book inspired the works of Desargues and Christiaan Huygens.He died in Antwerp, aged 50.

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