Belgian-born Dutch mathematician and engineer Simon Stevin (Latinized to Stevinus, as was the custom of the times) took as his motto, "Wonderful, yet not unfathomable," or, alternatively, "Nothing is the miracle it appears to...

1548-1620 Flemish Mathematician and Engineer Simon Stevin was the first to systematically develop the ideas of Archimedes on the equilibrium of solid bodies and liquids. He established the law of equilibrium for bodies on an inclined plane, explained...

1549-1620 Dutch mathematician and military engineer who founded the science of hydrostatics by showing that the pressure exerted by a liquid upon a given surface depends on the height of the liquid and the area of the surface. While a quartermaster in...

(born 1548, Bruges, Flanders—died 1620, The Hague, Holland) Flemish mathematician. In 1585 Stevin published a small pamphlet, La Thiende (“The Tenth”), in which he presented an account of decimal fractions and their daily use. Though...

Simon Stevin (1548/49 – 1620) was a Flemish mathematician and engineer. He was active in a great many areas of science and engineering, both theoretical and practical. He also translated various mathematical terms into Dutch, making it the only...