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Between tradition and innovation : Gregorio a San Vicente and the Flemish Jesuit mathematics school / by Ad J. Meskens with contributions by Herman van Looy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Meskens, Ad, author.
- Looy, Herman van, author.
- Series:
- Jesuit studies (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 32.
- Jesuit studies : modernity through the prism of Jesuit history, 2214-3289 ; volume 32
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Saint-Vincent, Grégoire de, 1584-1667.
- Saint-Vincent, Grégoire de.
- Jesuits--Education--Belgium--History--17th century.
- Jesuits.
- Jesuits--Belgium--Intellectual life.
- Mathematics--Belgium--History--17th century.
- Mathematics.
- Mathematicians--Belgium--Biography.
- Mathematicians.
- Mathematics teachers--Belgium--Biography.
- Mathematics teachers.
- Intellectual life.
- History.
- Education.
- Belgium--Intellectual life--17th century.
- Belgium.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 293 pages) : illustrations, map.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Introduction: The Low Countries, Spain, and Europe
- The college and its school of mathematics
- The seventeenth century : the dawn of a new era
- Francisco de Aguilón and mathematical optics
- Gregorio a San Vicente : an ignored genius
- The creative Antwerp-Leuven period
- Exhaustion : the road to infinitesimals
- Infinitesimal calculus at work
- Rome and Prague, the final discoveries
- The erroneous circle quadrature
- Joannes della Faille and the beginning of projective geometry
- The Antwerp students
- The Leuven students
- The later disciples
- The Jesuit architects
- The influence of the school of mathematics.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Leiden, Netherlands Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Meskens, Ad. Between tradition and innovation
- ISBN:
- 9789004447905
- 9004447903
- Publisher Number:
- 40030489000
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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