Campserver, Ignacio

Ignacio Campserver was born in the city of Manresa in 1722. ^[1] Joined the Jesuit community on October 16 in 1738. ^[1] He was a teacher of rhetoric and philosophy in Server ( 1743 ) ^[4] and Girona ^[4] , between 1748 and 1757 ^[1] . He later became a missionary . After returning, he was a mathematics teacher in Barcelona ( 1761 - 1763 ^[2] ) and Calatayud ^{[1] [5]} . In Barcelona, ​​the leader of Kampserver was the famous philosopher and mathematician Thomas Cerda ^[6] .

In 1767, Kampserver was sent to Italy ^[1] . During the exile he continued his research, died in Ferrera (present-day Switzerland ) in 1799 . Other sources indicate death in Ferrara in 1798 ^[7] .

• Amaltheum Prosodicum, sive brevis et accurata Syllabarum Prosodia, adjecto controversiarum elencho instructissimo. Opus utile, atque necessarium grammaticis, oratoribus, poetis, medicis, legislperitis, uno verbo, omnibus qui latinus amant correcte loqui. Gerona: Typis Antanii Oliva, 1758. 364 pp. The work was published under the name of one of Kampserver’s students ^[8] .
• Bibliotheca Mathematica cum Dictionario Theoricis, ac Practicis tam Antiquorum, quam recentiorum nobilioribus inventis ac figuris convenientibus ornata et in sex tomos distributa. Tomus l. Ferrariae: Typ. Heredum Josephi Rinaldi, 1789. 552 pp. In the introduction to this work, Kampserver indicates that he began work on it in Spanish, but then switched to Latin. He also points out that the entire Bibliotheca consisted of six volumes: however, doubts were expressed that any other volumes had been published ^[7] . The published first volume consists of three parts devoted to discrete quantities, continuous quantities and the table of logarithms ^[9] . The second volume should have been almost ready for publication; its table of contents was included in the first volume ^[10] .
• Casimiri Van Teperg Namsareni: De rebus Societatis lesu institutae, propagatae et abolitae. Libri tres. Ms. Casimiri ... es anagrama de Ignatii Camserver Manresani. 3 t.
• Cosmografía físico-storica, e stato presente del mondo. Ferrara: Francesca Pomatelli, 1785. XVI, 308 pp. The book is a synthesis of scientific knowledge of its time. The first volume is devoted to planets, stars and comets; the second is planet Earth; the third is political geography ^[10] .
• Curso completo de matemáticas. Ms. 4 t.
• De methodo utiliter studendi: cum ampla Bibliotheca auctorum qui rectius putantur scripsisse in unaquaque totius humanae encyclopaediae (sic) scientia et arte. Ms.
• Diccionario matemático. Ms. 2 t.
• Memorial solicitando publicar dicho "Diccionario matemático" bajo la protección de SM Ferrara, 24 de noviembre de 1775. Ms. Arch. Tol.
• Mercurio geográfico o diccionario de geografía. Ms. 2 t.
• Philosophiae Jesuitico-Peripateticae Synopsis. Theses Communiones. Gerona: Typ. Antanii Oliva, 1757.191 p.
• Proyecto de historia natural y civil de Cataluña. Ms. The first part of this work is devoted to coal mines , the second to other minerals ^[11] .
• Tratado de Cronología. Ms.
• Tratado de teología práctica. Ms.
• Versión castellana de las obras de Euclides y de otros matemáticos griegos. Ms.
• Vida de Cristo Nuestro Señor escrita en francés por el Abate Saint Real, traducida al español y anotada por Ignacio Campserver. [sa].
• Zoilo de los literatos donde se trata de los errores más notables de los autores de nota: de los libros que más agradan a la gente sin letras y de los títulos y argumentos ridículos de algunas obras ya conocidas. Ms. 3 t. In this work, Kampserver criticizes the mistakes of various authors, their vanity and funny inscriptions on their books. ^[eight]