Richard Swineshead

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Calculator , 1520

Richard Swineshead (also: Richard Suisset, John Suisset, Richard Suiseth) ( . Bl 1340 - 1354 ) was an English mathematician , logician and philosopher of nature .

He was one of the Oxford Calculators at Merton College , where he held the rank of Fellow in 1344 (possibly 1340) .

His masterpiece was Liber calculationum (1350), a series of mathematical treatises.

Robert Burton (1577–1640) wrote in Anatomy of Melancholy that Julius Caesar Scaliger and Gerolamo Cardano Suisset admired the Calculator as someone “… qui pene modum excessit humani ingenii” (“… whose talent was almost superhuman”).

Gottfried Leibniz wrote in a letter to MM Remond de Montmorency in 1714 : “Il ya eu autrefois un Suisse, qui avoit mathématisé dans la Scholastique: ses ouvrages sont peu connus; mais ce que j'en ai vu m'a paru profond et considérable. ”(“ There used to be a Swiss man who practiced mathematics within scholasticism: his works are little known, but those I have seen seem profound and relevant to me . ”) Leibniz had a copy of one of Swineshead's treatises from the Bibliothèque du Roi in Paris .

Girolamo Cardano (1501–1576) mentioned Swineshead (as John Suisset the Calculator) in his list of the 12 Greatest Scholars.

literature

  • George Molland : Swineshead, Richard. In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 2004

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Holbrook Jackson (Ed.): The Anatomy of Melancholy. In: Democritus Junior to the Reader. 1932
  2. ↑ Pierre Lardet : Les ambitions de Jules-César Scaliger latiniste et philosophe (1484–1558) et sa rèception posthumously dans l'aire germanique de Gesner et Schegk à Leibniz et à Kant. In: Kessler, Kuhn (ed.): Germania latina - Latinitas teutonica. 2003, (pp. 157-194).
  3. ^ François Duchesneau : Leibniz's Theoretical Shift in the "Phoranomus and Dynamica de Potentia". In: Perspectives on Science 6. 1998, (page 105)
  4. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from June 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / archimedes.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
personal data
SURNAME Swineshead, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Richard Suisset; John Suisset; Richard Suiseth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH 14th Century
DATE OF DEATH 14th Century