François d'Aguilon

François d'Aguilon, o d'Aguillon (in latino Franciscus Aguilonius) (Bruxelles, 4 gennaio 1567 – Anversa, 20 marzo 1617), è stato un matematico, fisico e architetto belga.

Illustrazione di Rubens per *Opticorum libri sex*.

Suo padre era segretario di Filippo II di Spagna.^[1] Si unì ai gesuiti a Tournai nel 1586.^[2] Nel 1598 si trasferì ad Anversa, dove contribuì alla progettazione del Carolus Borromeuskerk^[1] e nel 1611 fondò una scuola gesuita di matematica ispirata a Clavius, poi aiutato da Grégoire de Saint-Vincent.^[3] Fra i geometri che studiarono in tale scuola furono Jean-Charles della Faille,^[4] André Tacquet,^[5] e Théodore Moret.^[4]

La sua opera, Opticorum Libri Sex philosophis juxta ac mathematicis utiles (sei libri di ottica), è interessante per fisici e matematici. Fu pubblicata da Balthasar I Moretus ad Anversa nel 1613 e illustrata dal famoso pittore Peter Paul Rubens.^[6] Contiene uno dei primi studi sulla visione binoculare.^[1]^[7] Diede alla proiezione stereografica e alla proiezione ortografica tali nomi, usati tuttora, anche se come metodi erano probabilmente già note a Ipparco.^[8]^[9]^[10] L'opera ispirò inoltre quelle di Desargues^[11] e Christiaan Huygens.^[12]

Morì ad Anversa, a 50 anni.^[2]

Opere

(LA) Opticorum libri sex, Anversa, eredi Iohannes Moretus, 1613.

Note

^ ^a ^b ^c A. Neetens, Franciscus Aguilonius (1567–1617), in Neuro-Ophthamology, vol. 18, n. 1, 1997, pp. vii–xiii, DOI:10.3109/01658109709044672.
^ ^a ^b (FR) Henri Bosmans, S. J., Nota 41 in “Deux lettres inédites de Grégoire de Saint-Vincent publiées avec des notes bibliographiques sur les œuvres de Grégoire de Saint-Vincent et les manuscrits de della Faille”, in Annales de la Société scientifique de Bruxelles, vol. 26, 1902, p. 38.
^ Dennis C. Smolarski, Teaching mathematics in the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries, in Mathematics Magazine, vol. 75, n. 4, 2002, pp. 256–262, DOI:10.2307/3219160, MR 2074191.
^ ^a ^b A. Meskens, The Jesuit mathematics school in Antwerp in the early seventeenth century, in The Seventeenth Century, vol. 12, n. 1, 1997, pp. 11–22, DOI:10.1080/0268117X.1997.10555421.
«In the few years the school was based in Antwerp it brought forth a first rate mathematician like Jan-Karel della Faille. (…) Another important pupil of the school of mathematics was Theodore Moretus (1602–1667), son of Petrus and Henriette Plantin.»
^ (EN) John J. O’Connor e Edmund F. Robertson, Andrea Tacquet, su MacTutor, mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk, School of Mathematics and Statistics University of St Andrews, Scotland.
^ Julius S. Held, Rubens and Aguilonius: New Points of Contact, in The Art Bulletin, vol. 61, n. 2, 1979, pp. 257–264, JSTOR 3049891.
^ August Ziggelaar, S. J., Theories of binocular vision after Aguilón, in Strabismus, vol. 20, n. 4, 2012, pp. 185–193, DOI:10.3109/09273972.2012.735524.
^ Erwin Kreyszig, Differential Geometry, Toronto University Mathematical Expositions, vol. 11, Courier Dover Publications, 1991, p. 205, ISBN 978-0-486-66721-8.
^ Gregory Olinthus, Elements of Plane and Spherical Trigonometry: With Their Applications to Heights and Distances Projections of the Sphere, Dialling, Astronomy, the Solution of Equations, and Geodesic Operations, Baldwin Cradock & Joy, 1816, p. 121.
^ Piet Lombaerde, Innovation and Experience in the Early Baroque in the Southern Netherlands: The Case of the Jesuit Church in Antwerp, Architectura moderna: architectural exchanges in Europe, 16th - 17th centuries, vol. 6, Brepols Pub, 2008, p. 66, ISBN 978-2-503-52388-0.
^ David Ormerod, The mastery of nature: aspects of art, science and humanism in the Renaissance (review) (PDF), in Parergon, vol. 13, n. 1, 1995, pp. 170–171, DOI:10.1353/pgn.1995.0033.
«It required the combined brilliance of geometricians as diverse as Alberti, Leonardo, Dürer, De Caus, Aguilon, and Accolti to lay the groundwork, and the genius of Gerard Desargues to accomplish.»
^ August Ziggelaar, S. J., The impact of the “Opticorum Libri Sex”, in Strabismus, vol. 20, n. 3, 2012, pp. 133–138, DOI:10.3109/09273972.2012.709577.

Bibliografia

J. E. Morère, Aguilon, François d', in Dictionary of Scientific Biography, vol. 1, New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1970, p. 81, ISBN 0-684-10114-9.
August Ziggelaar, François de Aguilón S. J, 1567-1617: Scientist and Architect, Bibliotheca Instituti Historici S.I., vol. 44, Jesuit Historical Institute, 1983, ISBN 978-88-7041-344-1.
François De Aguilon, S.J., (1546 to 1617) And his Six books on Optics, Joseph MacDonnell, S.J., Fairfield University.

Altri progetti

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Collegamenti esterni

Aguillon, François, su sapere.it, De Agostini.
(EN) François d'Aguilon, in Cyclopædia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature, Harper.
Opere di François d'Aguilon / François d'Aguilon (altra versione), su MLOL, Horizons Unlimited.
(EN) Opere di François d'Aguilon / François d'Aguilon (altra versione), su Open Library, Internet Archive.

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[neetens-1] A. Neetens, Franciscus Aguilonius (1567–1617), in Neuro-Ophthamology, vol. 18, n. 1, 1997, pp. vii–xiii, DOI:10.3109/01658109709044672.

[bosmans-2] (FR) Henri Bosmans, S. J., Nota 41 in “Deux lettres inédites de Grégoire de Saint-Vincent publiées avec des notes bibliographiques sur les œuvres de Grégoire de Saint-Vincent et les manuscrits de della Faille”, in Annales de la Société scientifique de Bruxelles, vol. 26, 1902, p. 38.

[3] Dennis C. Smolarski, Teaching mathematics in the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries, in Mathematics Magazine, vol. 75, n. 4, 2002, pp. 256–262, DOI:10.2307/3219160, MR 2074191.

[meskens-4] A. Meskens, The Jesuit mathematics school in Antwerp in the early seventeenth century, in The Seventeenth Century, vol. 12, n. 1, 1997, pp. 11–22, DOI:10.1080/0268117X.1997.10555421.
«In the few years the school was based in Antwerp it brought forth a first rate mathematician like Jan-Karel della Faille. (…) Another important pupil of the school of mathematics was Theodore Moretus (1602–1667), son of Petrus and Henriette Plantin.»

[5] (EN) John J. O’Connor e Edmund F. Robertson, Andrea Tacquet, su MacTutor, mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk, School of Mathematics and Statistics University of St Andrews, Scotland.

[6] Julius S. Held, Rubens and Aguilonius: New Points of Contact, in The Art Bulletin, vol. 61, n. 2, 1979, pp. 257–264, JSTOR 3049891.

[7] August Ziggelaar, S. J., Theories of binocular vision after Aguilón, in Strabismus, vol. 20, n. 4, 2012, pp. 185–193, DOI:10.3109/09273972.2012.735524.

[8] Erwin Kreyszig, Differential Geometry, Toronto University Mathematical Expositions, vol. 11, Courier Dover Publications, 1991, p. 205, ISBN 978-0-486-66721-8.

[9] Gregory Olinthus, Elements of Plane and Spherical Trigonometry: With Their Applications to Heights and Distances Projections of the Sphere, Dialling, Astronomy, the Solution of Equations, and Geodesic Operations, Baldwin Cradock & Joy, 1816, p. 121.

[10] Piet Lombaerde, Innovation and Experience in the Early Baroque in the Southern Netherlands: The Case of the Jesuit Church in Antwerp, Architectura moderna: architectural exchanges in Europe, 16th - 17th centuries, vol. 6, Brepols Pub, 2008, p. 66, ISBN 978-2-503-52388-0.

[11] David Ormerod, The mastery of nature: aspects of art, science and humanism in the Renaissance (review) (PDF), in Parergon, vol. 13, n. 1, 1995, pp. 170–171, DOI:10.1353/pgn.1995.0033.
«It required the combined brilliance of geometricians as diverse as Alberti, Leonardo, Dürer, De Caus, Aguilon, and Accolti to lay the groundwork, and the genius of Gerard Desargues to accomplish.»

[12] August Ziggelaar, S. J., The impact of the “Opticorum Libri Sex”, in Strabismus, vol. 20, n. 3, 2012, pp. 133–138, DOI:10.3109/09273972.2012.709577.

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