References for Claude Dechales

1. W L Schaaf, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
   http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2830901106.html

Books:

2. J MacDonnell, Jesuit Geometers (Vatican City, 1989).

Articles:

3. M Cantor, Voresungen über Geschichte der Mathematik III (Leipzig, 1913), 4-6, 15-19.
4. J A Goldstein, A matter of great magnitude: the conflict over arithmetization in 16th-, 17th-, and 18th-century English editions of Euclid's Elements Books I through VI (1561-1795), Historia Math. 27 (1) (2000), 36-53.
5. A Nardi, An eccentric Galilean : the Jesuit François Milliet Dechales between Galileo and Newton (Italian), Arch. Internat. Hist. Sci. 49 (142) (1999), 32-74.

August 2006