Monday, March 1, 2010 Jean-Charles de la Faille Today in 1597 is
the birthdate for Jean-Charles de la Faille [Flemish
mathematician]. He was a contempory of Galileo and one of many
Jesuits involved in the sciences. His most famous work is
Theoremata de centro gravitatis [Theorems of Centers of Gravity]
. The portrait above by Van Dyck was done just prior to de la
Faille's move to the court of Phillip IV in Madrid in 1629 and
considered the only portrait that Van Dyck did of a scientist.
Jean-Charles de la Faille [Wikipedia]