Johannes Storms of Mechelen, known as Joannes Sturmius Mechlinianus, lived from 1559 to 1650 and was a mathematician, physician and poet from the Spanish Netherlands. Born in Mechelen on 29 August 1559, he studied at Leuven University, graduating master of arts before the age of twenty, and in 1579 was appointed to a benefice of the chaplaincy of St Margaret in Mechelen. He taught dialectics and metaphysics at Lily College in Leuven from 1585 while studying medicine, became licentiate in medicine in 1591, and in 1593 took the chair of mathematics vacated by Adriaan van Roomen, whose lectures he had audited, graduating doctor of medicine the same year. He was regent of Lily College from 1603 to 1606, took holy orders after the death of his wife in 1619 and died in Leuven in 1650. His works include a 1633 treatise on the exact measurement and squaring of the circle.
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Johannes Storms of Mechelen, also known as Joannes Sturmius Mechlinianus, or simply Sturmius or Mechlinianus (1559–1650) was a mathematician, physician and poet from the Spanish Netherlands. == Life == Sturmius was born in Mechelen on 29 August 1559.
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Johannes Storms of Mechelen, also known as Joannes Sturmius Mechlinianus, or simply Sturmius or Mechlinianus (1559-1650) was a mathematician, physician and poet from the Spanish Netherlands. == Life == Sturmius was born in Mechelen on 29 August 1559.
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Johannes Storms of Mechelen, also known as Joannes Sturmius Mechlinianus, or simply Sturmius or Mechlinianus (1559-1650) was a mathematician, physician and poet from the Spanish Netherlands. == Life == Sturmius was born in Mechelen on 29 August 1559.
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He studied at Leuven University, graduating Master of Arts before the age of 20, and on 12 June 1579 he was appointed to a benefice of the chaplaincy of St Margaret in Mechelen.
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Johannes Storms of Mechelen, also known as Joannes Sturmius Mechlinianus, or simply Sturmius or Mechlinianus (1559-1650) was a mathematician, physician and poet from the Spanish Netherlands. == Life == Sturmius was born in Mechelen on 29 August 1559.
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He audited the lectures of Adriaan van Roomen.
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