Philosopher
János Apáczai Csere
Overview
János Apáczai Csere (10 June 1625 – 31 December 1659) was a Hungarian polyglot, pedagogist, philosopher and theologian, famous for his work The Hungarian Encyclopedia, the first textbook to be written in Hungarian. The Encyclopædia Britannica calls him "the leading Protestant scholar and writer" of 17th-century Hungary.
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Ideas János Apáczai Csere discusses
- Hungary
- Hungarian language
- Cosmology
- Geometry
- Netherlands
- Counter-Reformation
- Heliocentrism
- Romania
- René Descartes
- Petrus Ramus
- Arithmetic
- Utrecht University
- Budapest
- Logic
- Astronomy
- Leiden University
- Cluj-Napoca
- William Ames
Place in the tradition
Part of Ramism.