Juan de Alcega

Juan de Alcega (16th century) was a tailor and mathematician from Basque country (Spain).

Juan de Alcega
Three pages of Geometria, Practica y Traça (1580)
Born16th century
probably Hondarribia, Basque country, now Spain
Diedunknown date
unknown place
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Tailoring

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.[1] We know, because he explains it in the introduction of his book, that he had some difficulties to publish it due to the resistances of the medieval guild of tailors, who thought that he was revealing the secrets of his art.[2]

In 1580 he published in Madrid the book entitled Libro de Geometria, 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.[3] It was also the subject of studies on philology by his terminology[4] and by his exposition of the mode of his times.[5] [6]

References
  1. Sánchez Orense & Sánchez Martín, page 477.
  2. Salavert Fabiani, page 247.
  3. Salavert Fabiani, pages 245 and following.
  4. Sánchez Orense & Sánchez Martín, page 477.
  5. Juarez-Almendros, page 139.
  6. Petrascheck-Heim, page 7.

Bibliography
  • Juárez-Almendros, Encarnación (2004). "Don Quijote y la moda: El legado de Carmen Bernis" (PDF). Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America (in Spanish). 24 (1): 137–142. ISSN 1943-3840.
  • Petrascheck-Heim, Ingebrog (1969). "Tailors' Masterpiece-Books". Costume. 3 (1): 6–9. doi:10.1179/cos.1969.3.1.6. ISSN 0590-8876.
  • Salavert Fabiani, Vicente L. (1995). "La cultura científica y técnica en la España de los siglos XVI y XVII". Bulletin Hispanique (in Spanish). 97 (1): 233–259. doi:10.3406/hispa.1995.4863. ISSN 1775-3821.
  • Sánchez Orense, Marta; Sánchez Martín, Francisco Javier (2009). "El léxico del oficio sartorial en el diccionario de Esteban de Terreros y Pando: el caso de Juan de Alcega". In Laura Romero Aguilera, Carolina Julià Luna (coords) (ed.). Tendencias actuales en la investigación diacrónica de la lengua (in Spanish). Barcelona: Publicacions i Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona. pp. 477–488. ISBN 978-84-475-3328-2.
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