François d'Aguilon or Aguilonius (1546 – 1617) was a Belgian mathematician and physicist. He was born in Brussels, Belgium and became a jesuit in 1586. In 1611, he started a special school of mathematics, in Antwerp, which intended to perpetuate the mathematical research and study in the jesuit society. This school produced geometers like André Tacquet and Jean-Charles de la Faille. His book, Opticorum Libri Sex philosophis juxta ac mathematicis utiles (Six Books of Optics, useful for philosophers and mathematicians alike), published in Antwerp in 1613, was illustrated by famous painter Peter Paul Rubens. Furthermore, it inspired the works of Desargues and Christiaan Huygens and was notable for containing the principles of stereographic projection. He died in Antwerp. Events Spanish conquest of Yucatan Peace between England and France Foundation of Trinity College, Cambridge by Henry VIII of England Katharina von Bora flees to Magdeburg Science Architecture Michelangelo Buonarroti is made chief architect of St. ... Events Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Ahmed I (1603-1617) to Mustafa I (1617-1623). ... A mathematician is a person whose area of study and research is mathematics. ... The word physicist should not be confused with physician, which means medical doctor. ... Emblem of the Brussels-Capital Region Flag of The City of Brussels Brussels (Dutch: Brussel, French: Bruxelles, German: Brüssel) is the capital of Belgium and is considered by many to be the de facto capital of the European Union, as two of its three main institutions have their headquarters... The Society of Jesus (Latin: Societas Iesu), commonly known as the Jesuits, is a Roman Catholic religious order. ... Events November 19 - Henry Barrow, English Puritan and Separatist is imprisoned. ... Events November 1 - At Whitehall Palace in London, William Shakespeares romantic comedy The Tempest is presented for the first time. ... The Cathedral of our Lady (Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekathedraal, Antwerp)in the Handschoenmarkt, in the old part of Antwerp is the largest cathedral in the Low Countries and is home to a number of triptychs by the Belgian painter, Rubens. ... André Tacquet (June 23, 1612-December 22, 1660) was a Belgian mathematician. ... Jean-Charles de la Faille (March 1, 1597-November 4, 1652) was a Belgian mathematician. ... Events January - Galileo observes Neptune, but mistakes it for a star and so is not credited with its discovery. ... Pieter Pauwel (Peter Paul) Rubens (June 28, 1577 – May 30, 1640) is considered one of the greatest painters in European art history (together with Dutchman Rembrandt van Rijn), and the most important Flemish (Netherlands, nowadays Belgium) painter of the sixteenth century. ... Girard Desargues (1591 - 1661) was a French mathematician and one of the founders of projective geometry. ... Christiaan Huygens Christiaan Huygens (pronounced in English ( IPA): ; in Dutch: ) ( April 14, 1629– July 8, 1695), was a Dutch mathematician and physicist; born in The Hague as the son of Constantijn Huygens. ... In cartography and geometry, the stereographic projection is a mapping that projects each point on a sphere onto a tangent plane along a straight line from the antipode of the point of tangency (with one exception: the center of projection, antipodal to the point of tangency, is not projected to...

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• This article incorporates text from the public domain 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
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