Abstract
Simon Stevin (or Stevinus, the Latinized form of the name) seldom published a work whose title page did not contain the statement that the author was a native of Bruges (Flanders). This oft-repeated statement provides us with one of the very few facts about his origin that are beyond all doubt. That he was born in 1548, is to be inferred with reasonable certainty from the legend of a contemporary portrait in oils, which is now the property of the Library of Leyden University. This date is further confirmed (or at least not contradicted) by one of the four documents that contain all of the existing information on Stevin’s birth and parentage.
Cf. Principal Works, Vol. I.
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© 1970 Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands
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Dijksterhuis, E.J. (1970). Stevin’s Life. In: Simon Stevin. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-3207-0_2
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