Bonaventura Francesco Cavalieri was an Italian mathematician and a Jesuate. He is known for his work on the problems of optics and motion, work on indivisibles, the precursors of infinitesimal calculus, and the introduction of logarithms to Italy. Cavalieri's principle in geometry partially anticipated integral calculus.
Bonaventura Cavalieri
Geometrical figures from Lo Speccio Ustorio, used in proofs of properties of parabolic reflecting surfaces.
The frontispiece of the Geometria indivisibilibus.
Monument to Cavalieri by Giovanni Antonio Labus, Palazzo di Brera, Milan, 1844
The Jesuati (Jesuates) were a religious order founded by Giovanni Colombini of Siena in 1360. The order was initially called Clerici apostolici Sancti Hieronymi because of a special veneration for St. Jerome and the apostolic life the founders led. The order was abolished by Pope Clement IX on 6 December 1668.
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