Adriaan van Roomen
Adriaan van Roomen (29 September 1561 – 4 May 1615), also known as Adrianus Romanus, was a mathematician, professor of medicine and
Life
Van Roomen was born in
In June 1593 Van Roomen became the inaugural professor of medicine at the newly refounded
His Mathesis Polemica, published in Frankfurt in 1605, explained the military applications of mathematics. In June 1610 he was in Prague, after which he travelled to Poland at the invitation of Jan Zamoyski to give public lectures on mathematics at Zamość in Red Ruthenia. He made the return journey via Hungary, arriving back in Würzburg at the end of 1611.[1]
Struggling with health problems, Van Roomen undertook a journey to Spa to take the waters but died en route at Mainz in the arms of his son, who was travelling with him.[1]
See also
- The Adriaan van Roomen affair
- Zamojski Academy
Works
- Ouranographia sive caeli descriptio (Leuven, Joannes Masius, 1591)[7]
- Ideae mathematicae pars prima, sive methodus polygonorum (Antwerp, Jan van Keerbergen, 1593)[8][9]
- Canon triangulorum rectangulorum, tam sphaericorum quam rectilineorum, methodo brevissima ([Leuven], 1593)
- Supputatio Ecclesiastica Secundum novam et antiquam Calendarii rationem (Würzburg, 1595)
- Parvum Theatrum Urbium (Frankfurt, Nicolaus Bassalus, 1595).[10]
- Almanack Wurztburger Bisthumbs, awff das Jar nach Christi unsers Seligmacher Geburt 1596 (Würzburg, Georgius Fleischmann, 1596)
- In Archimedis circuli dimensionem expositio et analysis (Würzburg, 1597)[11]
- Newer und Alter Schreib Calender auf das M.D.XCVIII Jar (Würzburg, Georgius Fleischmann, 1598)
- Newer und Alter Screib Calender Auff das MDXCIX Jar (Würzburg, Georgius Fleischmann, 1599)
- Almanach Würtzburger Bisthumbs auff das Jar nach der heilsamen Geburt Jesu Christi MDC (Würzburg, Georgius Fleischmann, 1600)
- Prognosticon Astrologicum oder Teutsche Practica auff das Jar nach der allein selichmachenden Geburt Unsers Heylands Jesu Christi M.DC. (Würzburg, Georgius Fleischmann, 1600)
- Newer und Alter Schreib Calender auff das M.DCI. Jar (Würzburg, Georgius Fleischmann, 1601)
- Prognosticon Astrologicum oder Teutsche Practica auff das Jar nach der Glorwürdigen Geburt Jesu Christi M.DCI. (Würzburg, Georgius Fleischmann, 1601)
- Almanach Wurtzburger Bisthumbs auff dass Jar nach der heilsamen Geburt Jesu Christi M.DC.II. (Würzburg, Georgius Fleischmann, 1602)
- Newer und Alter Schreib Calender auff das M.DC.II. Jar (Würzburg, Georgius Fleischmann, 1602)
- Prognosticum astrologicum oder Teutsche Practica auff das M.DC.II. Jar (Würzburg, Georgius Fleischmann, 1602)
- Universae mathesis idea (Würzburg, Georgius Fleischmann, 1602)
- Chordarum arcubus circuli primariis (Würzburg, Georgius Fleischmann, 1602)
- Newer und Alter Schreib Calender auff das M.DC.III. Jar (Würzburg, Georgius Fleischmann, 1603)
- Prognosticon Astrologicum oder Teutsche Practica auff das Jar ... M.DC.III. (Würzburg, Georgius Fleischmann, 1603)
- Arithmetica quatuor instrumenta nova Methodo ac forma patente exhibita (Würzburg, 1603)
- Mathesis Polemica (Frankfurt, 1605)[12]
- Speculum Astronomicum sive Organum Forma Mappae Expressum (Leuven, Joannes Masius, 1606)[13]
- Canon triangulorum sphaericorum (Mainz, Joannis Albini, 1609)[14]
- Pyrotechnia, hoc est, de ignibus festivis, jocosis artificialibus et seriis, variisque eorum structuris libri duo (Frankfurt, Palthenius, 1611)[15]
References
- ^ a b c d e f Henri Bosmans, "Romain (Adrien)", Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 19 (Brussels), 848-888.
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
- ^ Paul Bockstaele, "Astrologie te Leuven in de zeventiende eeuw", De Zeventiende Eeuw, 5 (1989), pp. 172-180.
- MacTutor.
- PMID 33943138. (here cited p. 131).
- Hal.archives-ouvertes.fr. p. 10. Archivedfrom the original on 9 July 2020. Retrieved 16 July 2021.
- ^ Ouranographia on Google Books.
- ^ Idea mathematicae I at hathitrust.org
- ^ Ideae mathematicae I at Google Books
- ^ 1608 edition available online.
- ^ In Archimedis circuli on Google Books.
- ^ Mathesis Polemica on Google Books.
- ^ Speculum Astronomicum on Google Books.
- ^ Canon triangulorum sphaericorum on Google Books.
- ^ Pyrotechnia on Google Books.
External links
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Adriaan van Roomen", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
- Media related to Adriaan van Roomen (mathematician) at Wikimedia Commons