Libert Froidmont
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Libert Froidmont Haccourt-Liège 1587 - Louvain 1638, was a Belgian theologian and scientist. He has been a close companion to Cornelius Jansen
and corresponded with Rene Descartes
Froidmont was educated by the Jesuits in his natal Liège and studied
philosophy in Louvain at the Falcon college. He became friends with
Jansenius but did not pursue his studies and instead went to teach
first at Antwerp and later back at Louvain. His scientific interests
lead him to publish on physics and mathematics. Acknowledging him as
an authority on Meteors, Descartes sent him his Essais which
Froidmont received rather critically. The scientific revolution may
have been underway but Froidmont, who was well informed on many
scientific matters, kept a traditionalist scholastic view. While
teaching philosophy he also started studying theology and obtained a
doctorate in 1628. Meanwhile he had became close to Jansenius who left
to his care the posthumous publication of the Augustinus. Froidmont inherited from him the chair in Scripture at Louvain.
Cornelius Jansen
Corneille Janssens, commonly known by the Latinized name Cornelius Jansen or Jansenius, was Catholic bishop of Ypres and the father of a theological movement known as Jansenism.-Biography:...
and corresponded with Rene Descartes
René Descartes
René Descartes ; was a French philosopher and writer who spent most of his adult life in the Dutch Republic. He has been dubbed the 'Father of Modern Philosophy', and much subsequent Western philosophy is a response to his writings, which are studied closely to this day...
Froidmont was educated by the Jesuits in his natal Liège and studied
philosophy in Louvain at the Falcon college. He became friends with
Jansenius but did not pursue his studies and instead went to teach
first at Antwerp and later back at Louvain. His scientific interests
lead him to publish on physics and mathematics. Acknowledging him as
an authority on Meteors, Descartes sent him his Essais which
Froidmont received rather critically. The scientific revolution may
have been underway but Froidmont, who was well informed on many
scientific matters, kept a traditionalist scholastic view. While
teaching philosophy he also started studying theology and obtained a
doctorate in 1628. Meanwhile he had became close to Jansenius who left
to his care the posthumous publication of the Augustinus. Froidmont inherited from him the chair in Scripture at Louvain.
Works
- Coenae saturnalitiae, variatiae Somnio sive Peregrinatione coelesti (Louvain, 1616);
- Dissertatio de cometa anni 1618 (Anvers, 1619);
- Meteorologicum libri VI (Anvers, 1627).
- Labyrinthus sive de compositione continui (Anvers, 1631)
- Commentarii in libros Quaestionum naturalium Senecae (Anvers, 1632);
- Anti-Aristarchus sive orbis terrae immobilis adversus Philippum Lansbergium (Anvers, 1634),