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== Further reading == * Virtually all of Stevin's writings have been published in five volumes with introduction and analysis in: {{cite book | editor1-last= Crone | editor1-first=Ernst | editor2-last=Dijksterhuis | editor2-first=E. J. | editor2-link=E. J. Dijksterhuis | editor3-first=R. J. | editor3-last=Forbes | editor4-first=M. G. J. |display-editors = 3 | editor4-last=Minnaert | title=The Principal Works of Simon Stevin | location=Lisse | publisher=Swets & Zeitlinger | year=1955–1966 | ref={{harvid|Crone et al., eds.|1955–1966}} }} The Principal Works are available online at [http://www.dwc.knaw.nl/?s=he+Principal+Works+of+Simon+Stevin The Digital Library of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences]. Does not include ''Dialectike ofte Bewysconst''. * Another good source about Stevin is the French-language bundle: {{cite book | editor=Bibliothèque royale de Belgique | title=Simon Stevin (1548–1620): L'émergence de la nouvelle science | location=Turnhout | publisher=Brepols | year=2004}}. * A recent work on Simon Stevin in Dutch is: {{cite book | author=Devreese, J. T. en Vanden Berghe, G. | title=Wonder en is gheen wonder. De geniale wereld van Simon Stevin 1548–1620 | location=Leuven | publisher=Davidsfonds | year=2003}}. * A recent work on Simon Stevin in English is: {{cite book|author=Devreese, J. T. en Vanden Berghe, G. | title= Magic is no magic. The wonderful World of Simon Stevin 1548–1620 | location=Southampton |publisher =WITpress| year=2007}} * {{cite book | first=C. | last=van den Heuvel | title=De Huysbou. A reconstruction of an unfinished treatise on architecture, and civil engineering by Simon Stevin | publisher=KNAW Edita | location=Amsterdam | year=2005 }} 545 pp – The work is available on line – see external links * {{cite book | last=van Bunge | first=Wiep | year=2001| title=From Stevin to Spinoza: An Essay on Philosophy in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic| publisher= Brill | location = Leiden }} * {{CathEncy|wstitle=Simon Stevin}} * [http://adcs.home.xs4all.nl/stevin/index-en.html Wonder, not miracle motto of Simon Stevin] : English page about Simon Stevin maintained by Ad Davidse Cathie Schrier with links to some of his work * [http://3quarksdaily.blogs.com/3quarksdaily/2005/05/monday_musing_s.html 3 Quarks Daily] is a short essay on Simon Stevin by S. Abbas Raza at ''[[3 Quarks Daily]]'' * [https://web.archive.org/web/20051103230856/http://www.simonstevin.be/ Simonstevin.be] is an Internet bibliography regarding Simon Stevin. * [https://web.archive.org/web/20070715043316/http://mathdl.maa.org/convergence/1/?pa=content&sa=viewDocument&nodeId=1034&bodyId=1228 Loci: Convergence] treats Stevin's use of the rule of false position. * [http://www.mathpages.com/home/kmath548/kmath548.htm MathPages ] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20090718140915/http://www.knaw.nl/publicaties/pdf/961083.pdf KNAW.nl] link to unpublished treatise of Simon Stevin on architecture, town planning and civil engineering – C. van den Heuvel. De Huysbou. {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Stevin, Simon}} [[Category:1540s births]] [[Category:1620 deaths]] [[Category:Scientists from Bruges]] [[Category:Engineers from the Spanish Netherlands]] [[Category:Flemish astronomers]] [[Category:Flemish mathematicians]] [[Category:16th-century Dutch astronomers]] [[Category:16th-century Dutch mathematicians]] [[Category:Mathematicians from the Spanish Netherlands]] [[Category:17th-century Dutch engineers]] [[Category:17th-century Dutch inventors]] [[Category:Clerks]] [[Category:17th-century Dutch mathematicians]] [[Category:Leiden University alumni]]
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