Joachim Sterck van Ringelbergh (Joachimus Fortius Ringelbergius) (

Antwerp Antwerp (; ; ) is a City status in Belgium, city and a Municipalities of Belgium, municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of Antwerp Province, and the third-largest city in Belgium by area at , after ...

, 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, whom it considers the starting point for serious moral and philosophical inquiry. The meaning of the term "humanism" ha ...

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, mathematical structure, structure, space, Mathematica ...

and

astrologer Astrology is a range of Divination, divinatory practices, recognized as pseudoscientific since the 18th century, that propose that information about human affairs and terrestrial events may be discerned by studying the apparent positions ...

. 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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