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D'AGUILLON, FRANCOIS

Specialty Definition: Francois d'Aguillon

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François d'Aguillon (Aguilonius), (1566 - 1617) was a Flemish mathematician.

Having entered the Society of Jesus in 1586, he was successively professor of philosophy at Douai and rector of the Jesuit College at Antwerp. He wrote a treatise on optics in six books (Antwerp, 1613), notable for containing the principles of stereographic projection.

See also: List of mathematicians

Initial text from the 1911 encyclopedia.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Francois d'Aguillon."

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