Claude Dechales Explained

Birth Date:1621
Birth Place:Chambéry, Savoy
Death Date:28 March 1678
Death Place:Turin, Piedmont
Field:Mathematics

Claude François Milliet Dechales (1621 – 28 March 1678) was a French Jesuit priest and mathematician. He published a treatise on mathematics and a translation of the works of Euclid.

Biography

Born in Chambéry, Savoy, Claude Dechales (De Challes) was the son of Hector Milliet de Challes (1568–1642), first president of Sovereign Senate of Savoy.[1] [2] [3]

He entered the Jesuits at the age of fifteen on 21 September 1636. He participated in the French Jesuit mission to the Ottoman Empire and taught literature in the schools of his order for nine years. Back in France, Louis XIV had him appointed professor of hydrography in Marseille where he taught navigation and military engineering. He then moved to the Trinity College in Lyon in 1674, where he simultaneously taught philosophy (4 years), mathematics (6 years) and theology (5 years). He published in Lyon his famous Cursus seu Mondus Matematicus.At the end of his life, Dechales taught mathematics in a college in Turin in Piedmont, where he died, on 28 March 1678.

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Notes and References

  1. Jean-Louis Grillet, Dictionnaire historique, littéraire et statistique des départements du Mont-Blanc et du Léman, tome 2, 1807, p. 125.
  2. Book: Fr. Christian Sorrel. Sorrel. Les savoyards dans le monde – recherches sur l'émigration : actes du colloque d'Annecy, 13 et 14 décembre 1991 (vol. 94). Société savoisienne d'histoire et d'archéologie. 1992. 64.
  3. Web site: Dechales, Claude - Scholasticon. scholasticon.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr. fr. 2017-03-12. 2 November 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20131102184909/http://scholasticon.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/Database/Scholastiques_fr.php?ID=433. dead.