Thomaz, Alvaro [Alvaro Tomas, Alvarus Thomas]

1. Dates

Born: fl

Died:

Dateinfo: Dates Certain

Lifespan:

2. Father

Occupation: No Information

No information on financial status.

3. Nationality

Birth: Portuguese

Career: French

Death: Unknown

4. Education

Schooling: Paris, M.A.

Identified as a regent of the Collège de Coqueret at Paris, 1509, in the colophon of his own principal work. I assume B.A.

Mentioned in the archives of the university as receiving (I wonder if this doesn't mean rather functioning as) M.A. at the same college, 1513. However, if he functioned as a teaching master, he probably received the degree.

5. Religion

Affiliation: Catholic

6. Scientific Disciplines

Primary: Scholastic Philosophy, Mathematics

Published Liber de triplici motu proportionibus, 1509, in the tradition of the calculatores--a work both of mathematics and of scholastic physics.

Thomaz was the calculator par excellence in Paris in the early 16th century, the principal stimulus to the revival of interest in the Mertonian approach to natural philosophy.

7. Means of Support

Primary: Academic

Beyond the few details above, nothing is known about Thomaz.

8. Patronage

Type: None

9. Technological Involvement

Type: None

10. Scientific Societies

Memberships: None

Sources

1. Grande enciclopedia portuguesa e brasileira.
2. Edward Grant, Nicole Oresme: De porportionibus proportionum, (Madison, 1966).
3. Ricardo G. Villoslada, La Universidad de Paris durante los estudios de Francisco de Vitoria, vol. 14 of Analecta Gregoriana, Series Fac. Hist. Ecc. Sectio B, num. 2 (Roma, 1938), pp. 404-7. Pierre Duhem, Etudes sur Leonarda da Vinci, 3, pp. 531-55, 557, 561.

Not Available and Not Consulted

1. Julio Rey Pastor, Los matematicos espanoles de siglo XVI, Biblioteca scientia, no. 2 (Toledo, 1926), pp. 82-9.

Compiled by:

Richard S. Westfall

Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Indiana University

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