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François d'Aguilon (also d'Aguillon or in Latin Franciscus Aguilonius) (4 January 1567 – 20 March 1617) was a Belgian Jesuit mathematician, physicist and architect. D'Aguilon was born in Brussels; his father was a secretary to Philip II of Spain.〔 He became a Jesuit in Tournai in 1586.〔 In 1598 he moved to Antwerp, where he helped plan the construction of the Carolus Borromeuskerk.〔 In 1611, he started a special school of mathematics in Antwerp, fulfilling a dream of Clavius for a Jesuit mathematical school; in 1616, he was joined there by Grégoire de Saint-Vincent.〔.〕 The notable geometers educated at this school included Jean-Charles della Faille, André Tacquet, and Théodore Moret.〔 His book, ''Opticorum Libri Sex philosophis juxta ac mathematicis utiles,'' or ''Six Books of Optics,'' is useful for philosophers and mathematicians. It was published by Balthasar I Moretus in Antwerp in 1613 and illustrated by the famous painter Peter Paul Rubens.〔.〕 It included one of the first studies of binocular vision.〔.〕〔.〕 It also gave the names we now use to stereographic projection and orthographic projection, although the projections themselves were likely known to Hipparchus.〔.〕〔.〕〔.〕 This book inspired the works of Desargues and Christiaan Huygens.〔.〕 He died in Antwerp, aged 50.〔. Footnote 41, (p. 38 ).〕 == Six Books Of Optics == Francois d'Aguilon's ''Six Books Of Optics'' concerns geometrical optics, which at the time in the Jesuit school was a subcategory of geometry. He taught logic, syntax, and theology while being charged with organizing the teaching of geometry and science which would be useful for geography, navigation, architecture and the military arts in Belgium. His superiors wanted him to synthesize the work of Euclid, Alhazen, Vitello, Roger Bacon and others.〔http://www.faculty.fairfield.edu/jmac/sj/scientists/aguilon.htm〕 Although he died before completing the book, it still consists of six in-depth books, called ''Opticorum Libri Sex.''〔Bangert, William A History of the Society of Jesus. St. Louis: St. Louis Institute, 1972〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「François d'Aguilon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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