- Hugh Sempill
"Hugh Sempill" is also the name of some men who bore the title of
Lord Sempill ."Hugh Sempill (or Semple) (in
Latin , Hugo Simpelius or Sempilius) (between1589 and1596 —1654 ) was a ScottishJesuit mathematician and linguist. He describes himself in his work as "Hugo Sempilius Craigbaitaeus", probably making him the Hew Sempill of Craigbait and Langside found in local genealogies, where his birth is given as1590 . [http://www.gbnf.com/genealog3/maclaren/html/d0259/I26201.HTM]A Jesuit, Sempill taught as professor of
mathematics at theColegio Imperial de Madrid (Imperial College of Madrid), which employed teachers from all over Europe and made courses ingeometry ,geography ,hydrography , andhorology .He also served as procurator of the
Royal Scots College in Madrid (now located inSalamanca ).Sempill's "De Mathematicis disciplinis Libri duodecim" (
Antwerp , ex officina B. Moreti, 1635), dedicated toPhilip IV of Spain , was a work that was read across Europe (his work was cited, for example, by the JesuitPhilippus Brietius in the Frenchman's own "Parallela Geographie"). Sempill's work was essentially a compilation and many pages consist of little but a list of names of writers in various scientific genres.Sempill also wrote "Experentia Mathematice. De compositione et divisione numerum, linearum, quadratorum..." (
Madrid , 1642).Simpelius crater on the
Moon is named after him. The name was assigned byRiccioli in 1651.External links
*es icon [http://www.ub.es/geocrit/geo30.htm Horacio Capel, La geografía como ciencia matemática mixta. La aportación del círculo jesuítico madrileño en el siglo XVII]
*es icon [http://www.usc.es/estaticos/congresos/ histec05/b14_saiz_gonzalez.pdf J. Patricio Saiz, "El peluquero de la reina"]
*de icon [www.dissertationen.unizh.ch/2006/wald/diss.pdf Sic ludit in orbe terrarum aeterna Dei sapientia]
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