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painting of libert froidmont . cornelius jansen october 28 , 1653 leuven , belgium haccourt , belgium professor at the university of leuven , belgium a -lsb- http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/file:libertus-fromundus.jpg] . picture of libertus fromundus can be found at september 3 , 1587 libert froidmont
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libert froidmont

libert froidmont -lrb- latin : `` libertus fromondus '' , 3 september 1587 in haccourt-liège -- 28 october 1653 in louvain -rrb- a son of gerard libert de froidmont and marguerite radoux , was a belgian theologian and scientist .
he has been a close companion to cornelius jansen and corresponded with rené descartes .
a picture of libertus fromundus can be found at -lsb- http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/file:libertus-fromundus.jpg] .
froidmont was educated by the jesuits in his natal haccourt liège and studied philosophy in louvain at the falcon college .
he became friends with jansenius but did not pursue his studies and instead went to teach first at antwerp and later back at louvain .
his scientific interests lead him to publish on physics and mathematics .
acknowledging him as an authority on meteors , descartes sent him his `` essais '' which froidmont received rather critically .
the scientific revolution may have been underway but froidmont , who was well informed on many scientific matters , kept a traditionalist aristotelian view .
while teaching philosophy he also started studying theology and obtained a doctorate in 1628 .
meanwhile he had become close to jansenius who left to his care the posthumous publication of the augustinus .
froidmont inherited from him the chair in scripture at louvain .
