Renaissance Quarterly, March 22nd, 2006
Hossam Elkhadem and Wouter Bracke, eds. Simon Stevin 1548-1620: L'emergence de la nouvelle science.
Bibliotheque Royale de Belgique. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2004. 184 pp. illus. tbls. map. [euro]37.74. ISBN: 2-503-51704-8.
Simon Stevin is counted among the foremost propagators of the mathematical sciences of the period ca. 1600. He earned his living mainly as a practitioner. He designed and built windmills and was an engineer in the army of the Dutch Republic. In his works, however, he aimed at combining practice with theory and engaged with pure mathematics as well. He made some not...
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