Juan Aparicio (priest)

Juan Aparicio O. de M. (fl. second half of the 17th-century) was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest, professor of arts and mathematician.

Biography

Juan Aparicio was born in Enguera, Valencia. Friar Aparacio was a Mercedarian scholar of Hebrew and Greek languages, professor of Arts at the University of Valencia and examiner. He also held the chair of mathematics, which he was very fond of; later he was promoted to the rank of teacher and was synodal examiner of the archbishopric.

Juan Aparicio died on April 23, 1696.

Works

• Elementorum Euclidi
• Liber X Elementorum Euclidis
• Tractatus astrologicus
• Tractatus geographicus
• Tractatus de arithmetica
• Tractatus de proemia libus theologicae
• Tractatus geometricus

References

• Diccionario Enciclopédico Hispano-Americano. Barcelona: Montaner y Simon Editores (1887–1910).
• Jose Antonio Garí Siumell, Biblioteca Mercedaria. Barcelona: Herederos de la Viuda Pla (1875).