Charles de Beauvelle ( fr. Charles de Bovelles , circa 1479 - circa 1567) is a French mathematician , philologist , humanist philosopher and mystic theologian of the 16th century. In some documents, his last name was recorded as de Bouelles , so some Russian sources call him Boulier . The scientist signed his Latin works: Carolus Bovillus . He served as canon of the cathedral in the city of Noyon and professor at the College of Cardinal Lemoine ( Collège du Cardinal-Lemoine ), a member of the University of Paris .
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The works of Bovel made a significant contribution to the development of French and European science and philosophy. His "Geometry" (1511) was the first scientific work published not in Latin, but in French. The works of Bovel were highly appreciated by Giordano Bruno and Pierre Charron . In the 20th century, the historian and philosopher called Beauvel "the most remarkable French thinker of the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries," and philologist E.N. Mikhailova noted that "in the history of science, de Beauvelle appears as one of the Renaissance titans," left their mark in many areas of knowledge, including linguistics ” [6] .
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Biography and scientific activities
Details of the biography of the scientist, including the exact dates of birth and death, are unknown. Born into a wealthy aristocratic family. In the years 1495-1503 he studied at the College of Cardinal Lemoine under the supervision of Jacques Lefebvre from Etapl , a student of Nikolai Kuzansky and researcher Aristotle . Lefebvre, like Bovel, was a native of Picardy , they met during the plague of 1495. Among the college teachers was an outstanding Alsatian historian and philologist Beatus Renanus [7] .
In the period 1503-1509, Bovel traveled to different countries of Europe in search of new knowledge, rare books and manuscripts. He visited France, Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, and upon his return he became a Catholic priest. In 1509, Bovel wrote one of his most famous books, “On the Sage,” and in 1511 published it in a collection of 12 of his essays, which included his thoughts on the problems of cognition, logic, natural science, and mathematical symbolism; this work influenced Descartes . In the following decades, he published dozens of works on philosophy, history, psychology, physiology, natural philosophy, various branches of mathematics, French philology and theology, and for solving theological problems he considered it possible to apply the concepts of the natural sciences [8] .
The philosophical treatise "On the Sage" develops the ideas of Nikolai Kuzansky and leading thinkers of the Florentine Platonic Academy : man is the connecting link of the universe, the unity of all being, the center of everything, because it is a natural mirror of all things - it is filled inside with their rational foundations. Reflecting the whole world in himself, man is the eye of the universe, he not only contemplates it, but also transforms it and cares about it. Of course, only an educated and enlightened person living in the interests of the mind can play such a role - it is in him, in the sage, this spiritual center of everything, that the world takes on a complete perfect form [8] .
In mathematics, Bovell was one of the first to study cycloid , trying to use it to solve the ancient problem of squaring a circle . Michel Challe, in his historical review Aperçu historique ... des méthodes en géométrie, mentions Bovel's work on stellated polyhedra and considers him the ideological successor of Thomas Bradvardin . Bovel’s books are characterized by a deeply Pythagorean approach: both mathematical objects and animal shapes find correspondence in regular forms of geometry (polygons and polyhedra, regular, convex or star-shaped). Some chapters, such as bell theory, physiognomy, or an explanation of the influence of certain machines, provide a fascinating picture of sixteenth century technical thought.
Memory
In 1979, the 500th birthday of Charles Bovel was celebrated. In his homeland, in Noyon, an international congress of Charles de Bovelles 1979 was held , dedicated to the memory of the humanist scientist and the study of his rich scientific heritage [9] .
In honor of the scientist named Lyceum in Noyon [10] .
Proceedings
- In artem oppositorum introductio, 1501;
- Metaphysicae introductorium, 1503;
- De constitutione et utilitate artium, ca. 1510;
- Géométrie en françoys (1510/11), Henri Estienne, Paris;
- Quae in hoc volumine continentur: Liber de intellectu. Liber de sensibus. Liber de generatione. Libellus de nihilo. Ars oppositorum. Liber de sapiente. Liber de duodecim numeris. Philosophicae epistulae. Liber de perfectis numeris. Libellus de mathematicis rosis. Liber de mathematicis corporibus. Libellus de mathematicis supplementis, 1510 (Repr. 1970);
- Dominica Oratio tertrinis ecclesiastice hierarchie ordinibus particulatim attributa et facili explanata commentario, 1511;
- In hoc opere contenta: Commentarius in primordiale Evangelium divi Joannis. Vita Remundi eremitae. Philosophicae aliquot Epistolae, 1511;
- Physicorum Elementorum libri decem denis capitibus distincti, quae capita denis sunt propositionibus exornata, unde libri sunt decem, capita centum, propositiones mille, 1512;
- Questionum theologicarum libri septem, 1513;
- Theologicarum Conclusionum libri decem, 1515;
- Responsiones ad novem quaesita Nicolai Paxii, 1520;
- Aetatum mundi septem supputatio, 1520;
- In hoc opere contenta: Liber cordis. Liber propriae rationis. Liber substantialium propositonum; Liber naturalium sophismatum. Liber cubicarum mensularum, 1523;
- Divinae Caliginis liber, 1526;
- Opus egregium de voto, libero arbitrio ac de differentis orationis, Paris 1529; Proverbiorum vulgarium libri tres, 1531;
- De Laude Hierusalem liber unus. Eiusdem de laude gentium liber I. De Concertatione et area peccati liber I. De Septem vitiis liber I, 1531;
- De Raptu divi Pauli libellus, auctus ab eius epistula ad fratrem Innocentium Guenotum, in Caelestinesium monarchorum ordine Deo militantem. Eiusdem de Prophetica Visione liber, 1531;
- Liber de differentia vulgarium linguarum et gallici sermonis varietate, 1533;
- Agonologia Christi, 1533;
- Livre singulier & utile touchant l'art et practique de Géométrie, composé nouvellement en Françoys, par maistre Charles de Bouelles (1542);
- La Geometrie practique, composee par le noble Philosophe maistre Charles de Bovelles (1547, reprint 1566), Guil. de Marnef, Paris
- Dialogi tres de Animae immortalitate, Resurrectione, Mundi excidio et illius instauratione, 1552;
- Geometricum opus duobus libris comprehensum, 1557;
- Praxilogia Christi quatuor libris distincta. o. J.
Russian translations
- Charles de Beauvelt . Book of the Sage // Hermes Cup: Humanist Thought of the Renaissance and Hermetic Tradition / comp. and auth. entry article by O. F. Kudryavtsev; commentary. O.F. Kudryavtsev. - M.: Yurist, 1996. ISBN 5-7357-0085-5 .
- Charles de Beauvelt . Book of the sage. // Ernst Cassirer . The individual and the cosmos in the philosophy of the Renaissance. Center for Humanitarian Initiatives, 2013. Series: Book of the World. ISBN 978-5-98712-113-9 .
- Application: Oleg Kudryavtsev . Charles de Beauvelle and his treatise On the Sage.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 120882841 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ 1 2 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
- ↑ 1 2 National Library of Australia - 1960.
- ↑ 1 2 Archive for the history of mathematics MacTyutor
- ↑ Swartz A. Open Library - 2005.
- ↑ Mikhailova .
- ↑ MacTutor .
- ↑ 1 2 Kudryavtsev O.F.
- ↑ Charles de Bovelles en son cinquieme centenaire, 1479-1979: actes du colloque international tenu a Noyon, les 14-15-16 septembre 1979.
- ↑ Lycée Professionnel Charles de Bovelles
Literature
- Tamara Albertini, Charles de Bovelles: Natura e Ragione come spazio interno / esterno della conoscenza , in L'uomo e la Natura nel Rinascimento , Firenze 1998
- Ernst Cassirer , Individu et cosmos dans la philosophie de la Renaissance (1983), éd. de Minuit, Paris ISBN 2-7073-0648-7
- Cesare Catà, L'abisso come origine. Portata e significants del concetto di "nulla" nel De Nihilo di Charles de Bovelles , (forthcoming)
- Cesare Catà, Forking Paths in Sixteenth-Century Philosophy: Charles de Bovelles and Giordano Bruno , in Viator. Medieval and Renaissance Studies, UCLA University, Volume 40, No. 2 (2009)
- Emmanuel Faye, "L'idée de l'homme dans la philosophie de Charles de Bovelles", in Philosophie et perfection de l'homme. De la Renaissance à Descartes , Paris, Librairie J. Vrin, Philologie et Mercure 1998, pp. 73-160 ISBN 2-7116-1331-3 .
- Daniel González-García, Ascendencias medievales en el Liber propriae rationis de Carolus Bovillus (1479-1567) MA Thesis (Philosophy). National Autonomous University of Mexico, 2012.
- G. Maupin, Opinions et curiosités touchant la Mathématique d'après les ouvrages français des XVIe, XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles , Bibliotheèque de la Revue Générale des Sciences, Paris, Carré et Naud, 1898.
- S. Musial, Dates de naissance et de mort de Charles de Bovelles "dans" Charles de Bovelles en son cinquième centenaires 1479-1979 - Éditions Trédaniel 1982.
- PM Sanders, Charles de Bovelles's treatise on the regular polyhedra (Paris, 1511) , Annals of Science, Volume 41, Issue 6 November 1984, pp. 513 - 566
- Joseph M. Victor, Charles de Bovelles, 1479-1553: An Intellectual Biography Genève: Droz, 1978.
Links
- Kudryavtsev O.F. Charles de Bovel . - New philosophical encyclopedia. In four volumes .. Date of treatment May 24, 2018.
- Mikhailova E.N. Charles de Beauvel about the changing nature of language . The text of a scientific article in the specialty "General issues of linguistics." Scientific reports of Belgorod State University. Series: Humanities, 2011
- Mikhailova E.N. Forgotten Names of European Linguistics: Charles de Beauvel (1479-1566) . - V: Language in the socio-cultural space and time // Materials of the All-Russian Conf. with international participation (Astrakhan, October 13-14, 2011). - 2011. - ISBN 978-5-91910-078-2 .
- John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson . Bovel, Charles de (Eng.) - biography in the MacTutor archive.
- Charles de Bovelles: The Book on the Sage - English translation of chapters 1-8 and 22-26 .