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Jean-François du Soleil, also known with the Italian name of Francesco dal Sole (1490 – 1565), was a French mathematician, astronomer and engineer. He was also a grammatician, orator and poet.

Life

Native of Chateau-Thierry about 1490, soon he moved to Italy. He was active in Venice and Ferrara. He died about 1565.

Among his works the Libretto di abaco, published in Venice in 1526, is considered a basic text from the school of Borgi and Pacioli.

Works

• Libretto di abaco (in Italian). Venice: Francesco Bindoni & Maffeo Pasini. 1526.

Notes

1. ^ "Dal Sole, Francesco". CERL Thesaurus. Retrieved 2017-07-06.
2. Notizie amministrative, storiche, artische relative a Ferrara (in Italian). 1868. p. 287.
3. Rivista italiana di ragioneria (in Italian). officina tip. Bodoni di Gino Bolognesi. 1927. p. 95.
4. Augustus De Morgan (2014). Arithmetical Books from the Invention of Printing to the Present Time. Cambridge University Press. p. 103. ISBN 978-1-108-07095-9.

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