Lalouvere [Lalouère, La Loubère, Lalovera], Antoine de

1. Dates

Born: Rieux (Languedoc), 24 Aug. 1600

Died: Toulouse, 2 Sept. 1664

Dateinfo: Dates Certain

Lifespan: 64

2. Father

Occupation: Aristocrat

The family was presumably noble with a chateaux near Rieux in what is now Haute Garonne.

No information on financial status.

3. Nationality

Birth: French

Career: French

Death: French

4. Education

Schooling: Religous Order, D.D.

As an ordained Jesuit who had taken the fourth vow, he would have had a full education within the order, including a doctorate in theology.

5. Religion

Affiliation: Catholic

He entered the Jesuit order in 1620.

6. Scientific Disciplines

Primary: Mathematics

His chief book is the Quadrature circuli, published in 1651. In 1658 he was drawn into the dispute with Pascal on cycloids for which his name is best known.

7. Means of Support

Primary: Church Life

He was professor of humanities, rhetoric, Hebrew, theology, and mathematics in the Jesuit college at Toulouse.

8. Patronage

Type: Court Official

He dedicated his book on the quadrature of the circle to Louis XIV.

9. Technological Involvement

Types: None

10. Scientific Societies

Memberships: None

Friendship and correspondence with Fermat.

Close relationship with Pardies and Willis.

The dispute with Pascal on cycloids in 1658.

Sources

1. Henry Bosmans' article in Archives internationales d'histoire des sciences, 3 (1950), 619-56. Q1.A734
2. Pierre Costabel's article in Revue d'histoire des sciences et de leurs applications, 15 (1962), 321-50, 367-9. Q2.R45
3. Nouvelle biographie générale, 29, 30-2.
4. P. Tannery, "Pascal et Lalouvere," in Mémoires scientifiques, 6, 79-114, 269-79.

Compiled by:

Richard S. Westfall

Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Indiana University

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