Mansion

Paul Mansion

Born: 3 June 1844 in Marchin (near Huy), Belgium
Died: 16 April 1919 in Ghent, Belgium

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Mansion was appointed mathematics professor at the University of Ghent and translated many works into French by Riemann, Plücher and Clebsch.

He wrote on the history of Greek mathematics and on Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler. Being a narrow-minded man with highly orthodox Roman Catholic views, his evaluation of the work of these three men was somewhat biased.

References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. L Godeaux, Paul Mansion, Biographie nationale publiée par l'Académie royale de Belgique XXX (Brussels, 1959), 540-542. 
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