Adriaan Anthonisz
Adriaan Anthonisz , also Adriaen Anthonisz , (* around 1543, † November 20, 1620 in Alkmaar ) was a Dutch cartographer , surveyor , mathematician and fortress engineer . From 1582 to 1601 he was elected mayor of Alkmaar several times, where he was probably born.
Anthonisz became Anthonisz. written because this was abbreviated as Anthoniszoon, as was common in Dutch at the time.
His father was a sealer ( Waagmeester ) in Alkmaar. In 1568 he mapped the Berger Meer . In 1573 he was commissioned by the city to draw up plans for the expansion and fortification of the city. In 1578 he was brought to Utrecht as a fortress builder and in 1579 he was commissioned by the States General to fortify Naarden and Muiden . He had similar commissions in the 1580s when a fortification ring was built in the Netherlands. From 1586 to 1588 and 1590 to 1596 he was the chief fortress builder of the States General ( Stercktebouwmeester der Vereenighde Nederlanden ). At the request of Moritz von Oranien , the mathematician to his court, he also wrote a treatise on the squaring of the circle (determination of pi ) in 1584 . He also had the title of Mathematicus van Oranje .
In addition to Alkmaar, Utrecht, Naarden and Muiden, he was at fortifications in Willemstad , Harderwijk , Zwolle , Amersfoort , Amsterdam , Bredevoort , Harlingen , Hoorn , Kampen , Tiel , Schenkenschanz , Stavoren , Wijk bij Duurstede , Woudrichem , Hasselt , Heusden , Gorinchem , Goes , Coevorden , Bourtange involved.
In 1571 he married Suida Dircksddaughter (from the Brederode family ), with whom he had eight children. Adriaan Metius and the instrument maker and lens grinder Jacob Metius (one of the inventors of the telescope) were his sons. Adriaan Metius improved the approximate values found by Adriaan Anthonisz for the circle number Pi to the value (Metius value for Pi). Jacob Metius registered a patent for the telescope in 1608, a little after Hans Lippershey . Both were originally called Adriaansz. (Adriaanszon), the gains Metius assumed after graduation to indicate their knowledge of mathematics and geodesy (measurement).
literature
- Cornelis de Waard: Anthonizs. (Adriaan) . In: Philipp Christiaan Molhuysen , Petrus Johannes Blok (eds.): Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek . tape 1 . Sijthoff, Leiden 1911, p. 157–159 (Dutch, dbnl.org [accessed April 4, 2017]).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Francis Franck: Over Adriaen Anthonisz en de precisie van Alkmaarsche landmeters een 16eeuw. (PDF) In: drebbel.net. Retrieved April 9, 2017 (Dutch).
Remarks
- ^ According to Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek . A part of Alkmaar is today Bergermeer , which lies on the polder of the same name .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Anthonisz, Adriaan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Anthonisz, Adriaen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch cartographer, surveyor, mathematician and fortress engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1543 |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 20, 1620 |
| Place of death | Alkmaar |