Joachim Sterck van Ringelbergh (Joachimus Fortius Ringelbergius) (

Antwerp Antwerp (; nl, Antwerpen ; french: Anvers ; es, Amberes) is the largest city in Belgium by area at and the capital of Antwerp Province in the Flemish Region. With a population of 520,504,

, c. 1499 – c. 1531) was a Flemish scholar,

humanist Humanism is a philosophical stance that emphasizes the individual and social potential and agency of human beings. It considers human beings the starting point for serious moral and philosophical inquiry. The meaning of the term "humani ...

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change. History On ...

and

astrologer Astrology is a range of divinatory practices, recognized as pseudoscientific since the 18th century, that claim to discern information about human affairs and terrestrial events by studying the apparent positions of celestial objects. Dif ...

. His ''Lucubrationes vel potius absolutissima kyklopaideia'' (Basileae: Westheimer, 1538) was the first work to use a version of the word " cyclopaedia" in its title. He is known also for his book on pedagogy, ''De Ratione Studii''.

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