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He was born in Antwerp, and entered the Jesuit Order in 1629.
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mathematician priest professor
He was born in Antwerp, and entered the Jesuit Order in 1629.
From 1631 to 1635, he studied mathematics, physics and logic at Leuven.
Tacquet adhered to the methods of the geometry of Euclid and the philosophy of Aristotle and opposed the method of Indivisibles. His most famous work, which influenced the thinking of Blaise Pascal and his contemporaries, is Cylindricorum et annularium (1651). In this book Tacquet presented how a moving point could generate a curve and the theories of area and volume.
He died in Antwerp.
Tacquet claimed in his 1651 book Cylindricorum et annularium libri IV that
makes war upon geometry to such an extent, that if it is not to destroy it, it must itself be destroyed.
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The Jesuat Stefano degli Angeli provided a detailed response, defending Cavalieri"s method.