Simon Stevin (1548-1620)

L’art de penser d’un ingénieur flamand

By (author) Jean-Marie Coquard Series edited by Virginie Fonteneau Series edited by Marina Gasnier Series edited by André Grelon

Book cover: Simon Stevin (1548-1620)

Extent: 479 pages

Publisher: Classiques Garnier

Subjects: Early Modern & Renaissance Studies

Series: Histoire des techniques

Series volume number: 43

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(October 2026)

ISBN: 9782406207320

5.94 x 8.66 inches

Price: $68.00

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Hardback (Published)

(October 2026)

ISBN: 9782406207337

5.94 x 8.66 inches

Price: $135.00

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This book examines Simon Stevin’s intellectual and material techniques, and provides an overview of this 16th-century Dutch engineer. Stevin, as a go-between, produced an art of thinking (mathematics, logic, language) put into practice in a new relationship with Nature.

Jean-Marie Coquard est docteur en histoire des sciences de l’EHESS. Il est membre associé au laboratoire E.S.T. de l’université Paris-Saclay et au centre Alexandre Koyré (EHESS, CNRS, MNHN). Ses travaux portent sur l’histoire des mathématiques au XVIe siècle.

  • By (author) Jean-Marie Coquard
  • Series edited by Virginie Fonteneau
  • Series edited by Marina Gasnier
  • Series edited by André Grelon