Gilles-François De Gottignies

Gilles-François de Gottignies (10 March 1630 – 6 April 1689) was a Belgian Jesuit mathematician and astronomer.

Life

De Gottignies was born in 1630 in Brussels, but became a very active member of the scientific community in Rome, where he became professor of mathematics at the Roman College. He opposed Jean-Dominique Cassini's theory and his works were translated in French by Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon. He died in Rome, aged 59, in 1689.

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References

* Joseph McDonnell, ''Jesuit geometers'', St Louis (USA), 1989
*''Biographie nationale de Belgique'', tome 8, Bruxelles, 1884, coll. 154–156. (Notice par A. Siret)
*''Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie ecclésiastique'', tome 21, Paris, 1986, coll. 921-924 (notice de R. Mols)
*''Diccionario histórico de la Companía de Jesús. Biográfico-temático'', 2, Rome-Madrid, 2001, pp. 1789-1790. (notice de S. Bedini).
*W. Audenaert, ''Prosopographia Iesuitica Belgica antiqua. A Biographical Dictionnary of the Jesuits in the Low Countries'', I, Louvain-Heverlee, 2000, p. 392.
*H. Bosmans, "La ''Logistique'' de Gilles-François de Gottignies de la Compagnie de Jésus", dans: ''Revue des questions scientifiques'', 41^e série, 13, 1928, 215–244.
*L. de Wreede, ''Gilles-François de Gottignies (1630-1689), jezuïet en geleerde'', thèse inédite, Leyde, 1999.
*K. Porteman, ''Emblematic exhibition at the Brussels Jesuit College (1630-1685''), Bruxelles-Turnhout, 1996, p. 109.

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1630 births
1689 deaths
Astronomers from the Spanish Netherlands
Jesuits from the Spanish Netherlands
Jesuit scientists