Frans van Schooten the Elder

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Frans van Schooten the Elder

Frans van Schooten the Elder (* 1581 in Nieuwkerke , municipality of Heuvelland (West Flanders) , † December 11, 1646 in Leiden ) was a Dutch mathematician, cartographer and engineer.

Schooten's father was a baker and fled the Spaniards from Flanders to Leiden, where he settled around 1584 and owned a house. Frans van Schooten studied land surveying at the Leiden Engineering School with Ludolph van Ceulen and Simon Fransz van Merwen (1548–1610) and Latin with Rudolph Snel van Royen . After van Ceulen's death in 1611, he took over his lectures in mathematics (elements of Euclid) and also taught fortress construction. In 1615 he became a professor at the University of Leiden. There were Christiaan Huygens and René Sluze to his students.

He married Jannetje Hermansd. In Leiden in 1609, one of their children was Frans van Schooten , who later took over his chair in Leiden. In 1625, after the death of his first wife, Maria Goolen, one of their children was Peter van Schooten (1634–1679), who in 1661 became a professor at the Leiden Engineering School.

In 1617 he published a Dutch edition of the Elements of Euclid (the first Dutch edition was by Jan Pieterszoon Dou 1606). He also published trigonometric tables and contributed to an edition of the fortification theory by Samuel Marolois .

Van Schooten's 1617 edition of the Elements of Euclid

Fonts

  • De propositien van de boecken van Euclides, Leiden: Govert Basson, 1617.
  • Uitgewerkte voorstellen van theoretical en toegepaste meetkunde, opgehelderd door net geconstrueerde teekeningen, 1600–1625
  • Roose crane. Dordrecht. 1623.
  • Oeuvres mathematiques de S. Marolois .... reduictes en meilleur ordre et corrigées ...., la geometry par Theodore Verbeeck et la fortification par Francois Van Schooten. Amsterdam, 1626.
  • Tabulae sinuum Tangentium et Secantium. Amsterdam 1627.
  • Ned. Sinus panels met het gebruyk derselve in regular triangles. Amsterdam 1627; 1632

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personal data
SURNAME Schooten, Frans van der Elder
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH 1581
PLACE OF BIRTH Nieuwkerke
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 1646
Place of death Leiden (city)