Simon Stevin [SEP] native language
Simon Stevin
Simon Stevin (; 1548–1620), sometimes called Stevinus, was a Flemish mathematician, physicist and military engineer. 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.
why Stevin returned to Bruges in 1577. Later the Calvinists seized power in many Flemish cities and incarcerated Catholic clerics and secular governors supportive of the Spanish rulers. Between 1578 and 1584 Bruges was ruled by Calvinists.
Biography Simon Stevin in the Netherlands.
In 1581 Stevin left his native Bruges and moved to Leiden where he attended the Latin school. On 16 February 1583 he enrolled, under the name "Simon Stevinus Brugensis" (meaning "Simon Stevin from Bruges"), at Leiden University, which had been founded by