François d'Aguilon
Belgian Jesuit mathematician, physicist and architect (1567–1617) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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François d'Aguilon (also d'Aguillon or in Latin Franciscus Aguilonius) (4 January 1567 – 20 March 1617) was a Jesuit, mathematician, physicist, and architect from the Spanish Netherlands.
D'Aguilon was born in Brussels; his father was a secretary to Philip II of Spain.[1] He became a Jesuit in Tournai in 1586.[2] In 1598 he moved to Antwerp, where he helped plan the construction of the Saint Carolus Borromeus church.[1] In 1611, he started a special school of mathematics in Antwerp, fulfilling a dream of Christopher Clavius for a Jesuit mathematical school; in 1616, he was joined there by Grégoire de Saint-Vincent.[3] The notable geometers educated at this school included Jean-Charles della Faille,[4] André Tacquet,[5] and Theodorus Moretus.[4]
His book, Opticorum Libri Sex philosophis juxta ac mathematicis utiles, or Six Books of Optics, is useful for philosophers and mathematicians. It was published by Balthasar I Moretus in Antwerp in 1613 and illustrated by the famous painter Peter Paul Rubens.[6] It included one of the first studies of binocular vision.[1][7] It also gave the names we now use to stereographic projection and orthographic projection, although the projections themselves were likely known to Hipparchus.[8][9][10] This book inspired the works of Desargues[11] and Christiaan Huygens.[12]