Alphonse Antonio de Sarasa

Alphonse Antonio de Sarasa (* 1618 in Nieuwpoort, † 1667 in Brussels) was a Flemish mathematician. He is considered the discoverer of the logarithm; partly this discovery, however, the Flemish Jesuit Grégoire de Saint -Vincent attributed to his student and later colleague he was. De Sarasa published, among other ars semper gaudendi ( " The art is always to rejoice ").

Life and work

Sarasa came from a Spanish family and worked as a preacher in Antwerp and Brussels. He became famous for his book Ars semper gaudendi that represents one of the sources for the Essais sur la de theodicy bonté de Dieu, la liberté de l' homme et l' origine du mal by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. To the readers of Sarasa also included Barthold Heinrich Brockes, Christian Wolff, Erhard Weigel and Jean Paul. Wolff enthused about " egregium opus ". Under the title The art is always to look forward and to always be-ing hilarious appeared in 1748 in Jena in two volumes a German translation by Johann Christian Fischer ( 1712-1793 ). Under the title The art in all incidents of human life always Being happily appeared in 1776 in Augsburg, another German translation. Also, translations into Italian (Rome 1836 Translator is Antonio Bresciani SJ), French ( L'art dans tous les de se tranquillizer événemens de la vie, four editions ) and German ( Compendium of the art of always rejoicing, London 1872, with a foreword by Thomas Meyrick SJ) are available. Under the title Nachin vu vszèh sivlènya dogodyajih vszigdar zadovolynomu biti (The way to always be satisfied in all cases life ) published the Croatian priest Ignjat Kristijanović ( 1796-1884 ) in 1826, a translation of the work into Croatian. Johann Christian Fischer also wrote a Latin commentary to Ars semper gaudendi ( Jena 1740).

Bibliography

• Alphonse Antonio de Sarasa: Solutio problematis a RP Marino Mersenno Minimo propositi, Antwerp, Meursii 1649.