Francis Xavier Aynscom

Flemish Jesuit of English extraction

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Francis Xavier Aynscom (1624–1660) was a Flemish Jesuit of English extraction. He was born in Antwerp in 1624 and entered the Society of Jesus there, becoming a teacher of literature and mathematics in the order.[1] In 1656 he published a book defending Grégoire de Saint-Vincent's work on squaring the circle.[2] He died in Antwerp at the age of thirty-six.

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1. ^ Adolphe Quetelet, "Aynscom, François-Xavier", Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 1 (Brussels, 1866), 576-578.
2. ^ Franciscus Xaverius Aynscom, Expositio ac deductio geometrica quadraturarum circuli (Antwerp, Jacob Meurs, 1656), on Google Books

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