François d'Aguilon
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François d'Aguilon was a Jesuit, mathematician, physicist, and architect from the Spanish Netherlands.
Opticorum libri sex, 1613
Illustration by Rubens for Opticorum Libri Sex demonstrating how the projection is computed.
St. Charles Borromeo Church is a Roman Catholic church in central Antwerp, Belgium, located on the Hendrik Conscienceplein. It was built in 1615–1621 as the Jesuit church of Antwerp, which was closed
François d'Aguilon
…was a secretary to Philip II of Spain. He became a Jesuit in Tournai in 1586. In 1598 he moved to Antwerp, where he helped plan the construction of the Saint Carolus Borromeus church. In 1611, he started a special school of mathematics in Antwerp, fulfilling a dream of Christopher Clavius for a Jesuit mathematical school; in 1616…
The Baroque façade on the Hendrik Conscienceplein
Painting of the interior by Sebastiaen Vrancx, c. 1630
Painting of the interior by Hieronymus Janssens and Wilhelm Schubert van Ehrenberg, c. 1660
Painting of the façade by Anton Gunther Ghering, c. 1665