Adam Adamandy Kochański was a Polish mathematician, physicist, clockmaker, teacher and librarian, born on 5 August 1631 in Dobrzyń nad Wisłą and dying on 17 May 1700 at Teplice in Bohemia. He entered the Society of Jesus in Vilnius in 1652, studied philosophy, mathematics, physics and theology, and lectured at universities in Florence, Prague, Olomouc, Wrocław, Mainz and Würzburg before returning to Poland in 1680 as chaplain, court mathematician, clockmaker, librarian and tutor to the son of King John III Sobieski. His best known work, Observationes Cyclometricae, on squaring the circle, appeared in Acta Eruditorum in 1685 and contains a famous approximation of pi that bears his name. In 1686 he introduced subtraction magic squares. He corresponded with Johannes Hevelius and Gottfried Leibniz and was nearly alone among Poles of his time in knowing the new calculus.
Facts
Connections
In Branch
Source Adam Adamandy Kochański (Wikipedia)
In the Other Atlases
Nationality
Also in Geography Atlas: the nationality of this subject.
Source Adam Adamandy Kochański (Wikipedia)Lead, nationalityQuote, Lead, nationality
Adam Adamandy Kochański IPA: [ˈadam adaˈmandɨ kɔˈxaj̃ski] (5 August 1631 – 17 May 1700) was a Polish mathematician, physicist, clock-maker, pedagogue and librarian.
Sources
1. Adam Adamandy Kochański (Wikipedia)
Lead, nationality
Adam Adamandy Kochański IPA: [ˈadam adaˈmandɨ kɔˈxaj̃ski] (5 August 1631-17 May 1700) was a Polish mathematician, physicist, clock-maker, pedagogue and librarian.
Biography, birth
Adam Adamandy Kochański IPA: [ˈadam adaˈmandɨ kɔˈxaj̃ski] (5 August 1631-17 May 1700) was a Polish mathematician, physicist, clock-maker, pedagogue and librarian.
Biography, gender
He was the Court Mathematician of John III Sobieski.
In Branch: Geometry, Lead, field of work
best known of his works, Observationes Cyclometricae ad facilitandam Praxin accommodatae, is devoted to the squaring the circle (or alternatively, the quadrature of the circle) and was published in 1685 in the leading scientific periodical of the time, Acta
View the SourceReader Challenges (0)
No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.
Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.