Jean-François du Soleil, also known with the Italian name of Francesco dal Sole (1490 – 1565), was a French mathematician, astronomer and engineer. He was also a grammatician, orator and poet.[1]
Life edit
Native of Chateau-Thierry about 1490, soon he moved to Italy. He was active in Venice and Ferrara.[2] He died about 1565.[1]
Among his works the Libretto di abaco, published in Venice in 1526,[3] is considered a basic text from the school of Borgi and Pacioli.[4]
Works edit
- Libretto di abaco (in Italian). Venice: Francesco Bindoni & Maffeo Pasini. 1526.
Notes edit
- ^ a b "Dal Sole, Francesco". CERL Thesaurus. Retrieved 2017-07-06.
- ^ Notizie amministrative, storiche, artische relative a Ferrara (in Italian). 1868. p. 287.
- ^ Rivista italiana di ragioneria (in Italian). officina tip. Bodoni di Gino Bolognesi. 1927. p. 95.
- ^ Augustus De Morgan (2014). Arithmetical Books from the Invention of Printing to the Present Time. Cambridge University Press. p. 103. ISBN 978-1-108-07095-9.
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