Juan de Alcega
{{Short description|Spanish 16th century mathematician}}
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| birth_date = 16th century
| birth_place = probably Hondarribia, Basque country, now Spain
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| field = Mathematics
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Juan de Alcega was a 16th-century tailor and mathematician from Basque country, Spain.
Life and work
Little is known about the life of Juan de Alcega. He was born in the province of Gipuzkoa, probably in the town of Hondarribia.{{smallcaps|Sánchez Orense & Sánchez Martín}}, page 477.
In 1580, he published in Madrid the book entitled Libro de Geometría, practica, y traça (Book on Geometry, Practice, and Pattern), reedited in 1589. This book is a clear example of the application of mathematics to technology in its first modern states.{{smallcaps|Salavert Fabiani}}, pages 245 and following. It was also the subject of studies on philology by his terminology{{smallcaps|Sánchez Orense & Sánchez Martín}}, page 477. and by his exposition of the mode of his times.{{smallcaps|Juarez-Almendros}}, page 139.{{smallcaps|Petrascheck-Heim}}, page 7. In the introduction to his book, he states that he had some difficulties publishing it due to the resistance of the medieval guild of tailors, who thought that he was revealing the secrets of his art.{{smallcaps|Salavert Fabiani}}, page 247.
References
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Bibliography
- {{cite journal
| last = Juárez-Almendros
| first = Encarnación
| title = Don Quijote y la moda: El legado de Carmen Bernis
| url = http://users.ipfw.edu/jehle/cervante/csa/artics04/juarez-almendros2.pdf
| journal = Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America
| language = es
| volume = 24
| issue = 1
| year = 2004
| pages = 137–142
| issn = 1943-3840
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| access-date = 2015-10-03
| archive-date = 2016-03-03
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160303183846/http://users.ipfw.edu/jehle/cervante/csa/artics04/juarez-almendros2.pdf
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- {{cite journal
| last = Petrascheck-Heim
| first = Ingebrog
| title = Tailors' Masterpiece-Books
| journal = Costume
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| volume = 3
| issue = 1
| year = 1969
| pages = 6–9
| issn = 0590-8876
| doi= 10.1179/cos.1969.3.1.6
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- {{cite journal
| last = Salavert Fabiani
| first = Vicente L.
| title = La cultura científica y técnica en la España de los siglos XVI y XVII
| journal = Bulletin Hispanique
| language = es
| volume = 97
| issue = 1
| year = 1995
| pages = 233–259
| issn = 1775-3821
| doi= 10.3406/hispa.1995.4863
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- {{cite book
| last1 = Sánchez Orense
| first1 = Marta
| last2 = Sánchez Martín
| first2 = Francisco Javier
| chapter = El léxico del oficio sartorial en el diccionario de Esteban de Terreros y Pando: el caso de Juan de Alcega
| editor= Laura Romero Aguilera, Carolina Julià Luna (coords)
| title = Tendencias actuales en la investigación diacrónica de la lengua
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=U5yVxAQQ9CQC
| date = 2009
| publisher = Publicacions i Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona
| location = Barcelona
| pages = 477–488
| language = es
| isbn = 978-84-475-3328-2
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External links
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- {{cite web|first=Marta|last=Sánchez Orense|title=Particularidades del léxico de la moda renacentista: dificultades en su análisis|language=es|url=http://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=2932478|website=Cuadernos del Instituto de Historia de la Lengua|issn=1889-0709|accessdate=3 October 2015|year=2008}}
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Category:16th-century Spanish mathematicians