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Denis (sometimes Didier) Henrion, was a French
''Mémoires mathématiques recueillis et dressés en faveur de la noblesse française''
Paris, 1613, 4°. Published again in Paris by Fleury Bourriquant, 1623, 8° * ''Problemata duo nobilissima, quorum nec analysin geometricam, videntur tenuisse Ioannes Regiomontanus & Petrus Nonius; nec demonstrationem satis accuratam repraesentasse,
Internet Archive link
* ''Problematum opus amplissimum et schediasmata poetica et critica'' (manuscript)
''Deux cens questions ingénieuses et récréatives extraictes et tirées des œuvres mathématiques de Valentin Menher avec quelques annotations de Michel Coignet, le tout corrigé, recueilli et mis en cet ordre, par D.H.P.E.M.''
Paris, 1620
''L'usage du mécomètre, qui est un instrument géométrique avec lequel on peut très facilement mesurer toutes sortes de longueurs et distances visibles''
Paris, 1630, 8°
''Tables des directions et projections de Jean de Mont-Royal''
ref>"Jean de Mont-Royal" is Regiomontanus.
Denis (sometimes Didier) Henrion, was a French 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 ...
born at the end of the 16th century in France. He co-edited the works of Viète. He died around 1632 in Paris.
Contributions
Henrion wrote a tract concerninglogarithm
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s.
He translated Euclid's Elements
The ''Elements'' ( grc, Στοιχεῖα ''Stoikheîa'') is a mathematical treatise consisting of 13 books attributed to the ancient Greek mathematician Euclid in Alexandria, Ptolemaic Egypt 300 BC. It is a collection of definitions, postulat ...
from Latin into French.
He published ''Problemata nobilissima duo'' (Paris, 1616), a book against Marin Ghetaldi and attacking Viète and Regiomontanus
Johannes Müller von Königsberg (6 June 1436 – 6 July 1476), better known as Regiomontanus (), was a mathematician, astrologer and astronomer of the German Renaissance, active in Vienna, Buda and Nuremberg. His contributions were instrument ...
. Later reorganized, the book was republished by its author.
Works (selection)
Original works
''Mémoires mathématiques recueillis et dressés en faveur de la noblesse française''
Paris, 1613, 4°. Published again in Paris by Fleury Bourriquant, 1623, 8° * ''Problemata duo nobilissima, quorum nec analysin geometricam, videntur tenuisse Ioannes Regiomontanus & Petrus Nonius; nec demonstrationem satis accuratam repraesentasse,
Franciscus Vieta
Franciscus is a Latin given name, originally an epithet meaning "the Frank, the Frenchman".
It was applied to Saint Francis of Assisi (1181/82–1226).
Francis had been baptized Giovanni (John); his father was Italian and his mother Proven� ...
et Marinus Ghetaldus nunc demum a Clemente Cyriaco diligentius elaborata et novis analyseon formis exculta. Inscriptiones praeterea figurarum non injucundœ''. Paris: David Leclerc, 1616, 4°.Internet Archive link
* ''Problematum opus amplissimum et schediasmata poetica et critica'' (manuscript)
''Deux cens questions ingénieuses et récréatives extraictes et tirées des œuvres mathématiques de Valentin Menher avec quelques annotations de Michel Coignet, le tout corrigé, recueilli et mis en cet ordre, par D.H.P.E.M.''
Paris, 1620
''L'usage du mécomètre, qui est un instrument géométrique avec lequel on peut très facilement mesurer toutes sortes de longueurs et distances visibles''
Paris, 1630, 8°
Translations
* ''Les Quinze livres des Éléments d'Euclide, traduits du latin en français''. Online''Tables des directions et projections de Jean de Mont-Royal''
ref>"Jean de Mont-Royal" is Regiomontanus.
References
See also
* Alexander Anderson * Marin Getaldić *Pierre Hérigone
Pierre Hérigone (Latinized as Petrus Herigonius) (1580–1643) was a French mathematician and astronomer.
Of Basque people, Basque origin, Hérigone taught in Paris for most of his life.
Works
Only one work by Hérigone is known to exist: ''Cur ...
* Clément Cyriaque de Mangin (who sometimes used 'Denis Henrion' as a pseudonym)
* Claude Mydorge
Claude Mydorge (1585 – July 1647) was a French mathematician. His primary contributions were in geometry and physics.
Mydorge served on a scientific committee (whose members included Pierre Hérigone and Étienne Pascal) set up to determine ...
17th-century French mathematicians
1640 deaths
17th-century French people
Year of birth unknown
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