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Between Tradition and Innovation Gregorio a San Vicente and the Flemish Jesuit Mathematics School
, Brill, 2021 Hardcover, 294 pages Illustrated. ISBN 9789004414990.
In Between Tradition and Innovation, Ad Meskens traces the profound influence of a group of Flemish Jesuits on the course of mathematics in the seventeenth century. Using manuscript evidence, this book argues that one of the Flemish mathematics school?s professors, Gregorio a San Vicente (1584?1667), had developed a logically sound integration method more than a decade before the Italian mathematician Bonaventura Cavalieri. Although San Vincente?s superiors refused to grant him permission to publish his results, his methods went on to influence numerous other mathematicians through his students, many of whom became famous mathematicians in their own right. By carefully tracing their careers and outlining their biographies, Meskens convincingly shows that they made a number of ground-breaking contributions to fields ranging from mathematics and mechanics to optics and architecture.
Between Tradition and Innovation Gregorio a San Vicente and the Flemish Jesuit Mathematics School
, Brill, 2021 Hardcover, 294 pages Illustrated. ISBN 9789004414990.
In Between Tradition and Innovation, Ad Meskens traces the profound influence of a group of Flemish Jesuits on the course of mathematics in the seventeenth century. Using manuscript evidence, this book argues that one of the Flemish mathematics school?s professors, Gregorio a San Vicente (1584?1667), had developed a logically sound integration method more than a decade before the Italian mathematician Bonaventura Cavalieri. Although San Vincente?s superiors refused to grant him permission to publish his results, his methods went on to influence numerous other mathematicians through his students, many of whom became famous mathematicians in their own right. By carefully tracing their careers and outlining their biographies, Meskens convincingly shows that they made a number of ground-breaking contributions to fields ranging from mathematics and mechanics to optics and architecture.
COIGNET, EEN FAMILIE TUSSEN WETENSCHAP EN KUNST, FAMILIA UNIVERSALIS : coinget.
, Ad Meskens, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen en Ministerie van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap, 1998, softcover, geillustreerde cover, 170 x 230 mm., 224 pp., uitvoerige illustratie.in-8? , 224 pp, index, nieuwstaat !
Gelijknamige document tentoonstelling werd in het kader van de Vlaamse Wetenschapsweek gehouden van 2 oktober tot 13 december 1998 in het Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten te Antwerpen. Boek is in goede staat. ''Dossier tentoonstelling''. Facts about the Antwerp Coignet family; artists, engravers, designers of scientific instruments etc. Text in Dutch
JOANNES DELLA FAILLE s.j. MATHEMATICS, MODESTY AND MISSED OPPORTUNITIES,
, Brussels, Belgisch Historisch Instituut te Rome, 2005, Softcover, pictorial wrapper, 155 x 240mm., 179pp., b/w illustration and documentation. ISBN 9074461530.
Institut Historique Belge de Rome Bibliotheque / Belgisch Historisch Instituut te Rome Bibliotheek LIII.Trilingual edition Eng / Dtch / Fr. Newly discovered manuscript evidence shows that Della Faille's research on conic sections was probably on par with that of Pascal and Descargues. His results are discussed and a plea is made for reappraisal of his work. Book is as new.
Mercator: Exploring New Horizons
, BAI, 2012 softcover, 124 pag. 26x21cm, Illustrated. ISBN 9789085866299.
The European perspective opened up markedly in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as a whole new world unfolded. Explorers, traders and diplomats committed their travelling experiences to paper in journals and reports. They sketched out their impressions of recently discovered territories, making it possible for us today to see how they viewed other cultures at that time. These travel narratives may have been embroidered with a certain degree of fantasy at times, nevertheless, they also frequently provided precise descriptions of exotic regions. They were important sources of information for cartography, which underwent an explosive evolution as a result. Navigational knowledge also grew considerably as a consequence of the traveller's urge to explore. After all, maritime expansion on a vast scale led to a need for new techniques and instruments in order to reach destinations quickly and safely. The development of cartography, in which Gerard Mercator played a pivotal role, was in turn responsible for expanding the mobility of Europeans as a whole. It was not uncommon for adventurous sixteenth-century travellers to embark on lengthy journeys as part of a trade mission or in connection with their education. One such young adventurer was Balthasar III Moretus. He made several journeys throughout Europe, including one to Italy, and kept journals of his observations on the way. Mercator: Exploring New Horizons maps out literally and figuratively this fascinating period of interplay between European travelling behaviour and the development of cartography.
Familia Universalis. Coignet. Een familie tussen wetenschap en kunst.
" Antwerpen, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, 1998, in-8°, 224 pp, index, bibliografie, tipped in at the front; a 36 pp booklet; ''Dossier tentoonstelling''. Facts about the Antwerp Coignet family; artists, engravers, designers of scientific instruments etc. Text in Dutch. Boek in het Nederlands."
Familia Universalis. Coignet. Een familie tussen wetenschap en kunst.
" Antwerpen, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, 1998, in-8°, 224 pp, index, bibliografie, tipped in at the front; a 36 pp booklet; ''Dossier tentoonstelling''. Facts about the Antwerp Coignet family; artists, engravers, designers of scientific instruments etc. Text in Dutch. Boek in het Nederlands."
