'Magic is No Magic': The Wonderful World of Simon StevinWIT, 2008 - 310 pàgines This book gives a comprehensive picture of the activities and the creative heritage of Simon Stevin, who made outstanding contributions to various fields of science in particular, physics and mathematics and many more. Among the striking spectrum of his ingenious achievements, it is worth emphasizing, that Simon Stevin is rightly considered as the father of the system of decimal fractions as it is in use today. Stevin also urged the universal use of decimal fractions along with standardization in coinage, measures and weights. This was a most visionary proposal. Stevin was the first since Archimedes to make a significant new contribution to statics and hydrostatics. He truly was uomo universalis. |
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Foreword | xiii |
Acknowledgements | xix |
Prologue The Low Countries in Stevins | xxxvii |
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