Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz

Most Reverend

Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz
Bishop of Vigevano
ChurchCatholic Church
DioceseVigevano (1673–1682)
Campagna e Satrianum (1657–1673)
SuccessorFerdinando de Rojas
Previous post(s)Grand-Vicar to the Archbishop of Prague
Orders
Consecration29 July 1567
by Cardinal Francesco Brancaccio
Personal details
Born23 May 1606
Madrid, Spain
Died8 September 1682
Vigevano, Italy
NationalitySpanish
Philosophy career
EducationUniversity of Alcalá
University of Salamanca
Old University of Leuven (Ph.D., 1629; Th.D., 1638)
Era17th-century philosophy
Region
SchoolAristotelianism
Scholasticism
Probabilism
InstitutionsUniversity of Salamanca
Old University of Leuven
Main interests
Metaphysics, moral philosophy, mathematics, astronomy
Notable ideas
Binary mathematics[1][2]
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OccupationMathematician and theologian

Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz (Juan Caramuel de Lobkowitz, 23 May 1606 in Madrid — 7 or 8 September 1682 in Vigevano) was a Spanish Catholic scholastic philosopher, ecclesiastic, mathematician, polyglot,[4] and writer. He is believed to be a great-grandson of Jan Popel y Lobkowicz.

  1. ^ Ineichen, R. (2008). "Leibniz, Caramuel, Harriot und das Dualsystem" (PDF). Mitteilungen der deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung (in German). 16 (1): 12–15. doi:10.1515/dmvm-2008-0009. S2CID 179000299.
  2. ^ Knuth, Donald E. (2014). The Art of Computer Programming II: Seminumerical Algorithms. Pearson Education. p. 183. ISBN 9780321635761.
  3. ^ De Ferrari 1976.
  4. ^ "Caramuel, Juan Lobkowitz | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2024-07-10.

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