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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.
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.
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."
