François d\' Aguilon

François d' Aguilon (also Pivot or in Latin Aguilonius ) (January 15th 1567, Brussels, - March 20th 1617, Tournai (Belgium) was a Belgian priest Jesuit of Spanish origin, Mathématicien, Physicien, Master in optics and Architecte.

Youth and Formation

D' Aguilon studied the letters and philosophy with the college of Douai and Paris before becoming Jesuit in 1586. It finished philosophy (1587-89) and taught the letters in Douai before making its theology with Salamanque in Spain (1592-96). It was ordered priest with Ypres in 1596.

Mathematician

It is in mathematics and optics however that it gave all its measurement. Initially professor of mathematics in Douai it was tranféré in Antwerp in 1598 from which it transformed the college into seedbed of scientists, the such geometricians André Tacquet, Jean-Charles beyond Fault and Theodore Moretus. He was also the Vice-chancellor until 1616.

Its treaty Opticorum… , published in 1613 (and illustrated by Pierre-Paul Rubens itself), advanced considerably knowledge in optics and had a very great influence on the physicists of the time. As architect it collaborated in the projects of the churches Jesuits of Turned and Mons. He was the project superintendent of the most beautiful church Jesuit of style baroque in the Netherlands, the church of the college St Ignace of Antwerp (now church St Charles Borromée) whose completion, after its death, was entrusted to Pierre Huyssens, a brother Jesuit and architect of profession, and interior decoration with Pierre-Paul Rubens.

Principal work

Opticorum libri sex philosophis iuxta ac mathematicis useful , Antwerp, 1613.

References

QUETELET, A., History of mathematical sciences among Belgians , Brussels, 1864.
PLANTENGA, J.H., religious architecture of the Brabant in XVVe century , $the Hague, 1926.
ZIGGELAAR, A., François de Aguilon S.J. (1567-1617), Scientist and Architect , Rome 1983.

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