Samuel Marolois

Opera mathematica 1628

Samuel Marolois (* around 1572 in the States General ; † before 1627 in The Hague ) was a Dutch mathematician and engineer in the service of Moritz von Orange .

Name variants are Maroloys, Marlois.

Marolois was the son of a Huguenot who had gone into exile in the Netherlands and worked at the court of Moritz von Orange. Marolois also went into the service of Moritz von Oranien and was an engineer there, as was Simon Stevin .

He published on perspective in his Gesammelte Werken in 1614 (La perspective contenant la theorie et la practique d'icelles, in addition to French also in Latin), and his treatise was often reprinted and translated (also into German and Dutch). He mentions Albrecht Dürer , Sebastiano Serlio and Johannes Lencker as a forerunner , but not contemporaries. After Kirsti Andersen, however, he was influenced by Guidobaldo del Monte (strangely enough, but not by Simon Stevin, although the latter often argues more elegantly and simply). He also wrote about the building of fortresses, which was also reprinted in various editions (also in Dutch and German). Albert Girard , at that time also a French engineer with Moritz von Oranien, was involved in the edition of his works .

Fonts

• Opera Mathematica, Amsterdam 1614, 1628
• Oeuvres mathématicqves de Samuel Marolois, traictant de la Géométrie et Fortification, réduietes in meilleur ordre, et corrigées d'un nombre infiny de fautes ecsulees aux impressions précédentes, Amsterdam 1627, digitized
• Samuel Maroloys. The world-famous highly experienced mathematici and engineer Fortification, Amsterdam, Ian Ianssen, 1627 (augmented by Albert Gerhardt), digitized

literature

• Kirsti Andersen : Geometry as an art, Springer (section The work of Marolois , from p. 297)

Web links

• Various editions of his books on fortresses, Tours University

Individual evidence

1. ^ Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek . tape 2 . AW Sijthoff's Uitgevers-Maatschappij, Leiden 1912, Sp. 873-875 ( online ).