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Flemish mathematician scientist and music theorist (1548–1620)

For the ship, see RV Simon Stevin. For the Dutch academic journal, see Simon Stevin (journal).

Simon Stevin (Dutch:[ˈsimɔnsteːˈvɪn]; 1548–1620), sometimes called Stevinus, was a Flemishmathematician, scientist and music theorist.^[1] He made various contributions in many areas of science and engineering, both theoretical and practical.

He also translated various mathematical terms into Dutch, making it one of the few European languages in which the word for mathematics, wiskunde (wis and kunde, i.e., "the knowledge of what is certain"), was not a loanword from Greek but a calque via Latin.

He also replaced the word chemie, the Dutch for chemistry, by scheikunde ("the art of separating"), made in analogy with wiskunde.

Biography

Very little is known with certainty about Simon Stevin's life, and what we know is mostly inferred from other recorded facts.^[2]