Clermont (mathematician)

Clermont (16th century) was a French mathematician and military engineer. His books about practical geometry, Geometrie pratique de l'ingenieur, ou L'art de mesurer (1693) was a reference work reprinted for 60 years.[1][2]

Geometrie pratique de l'ingenieur, ou L'art de mesurer, 1693

Clermont served in the French Army as artillery commissary.[3]

Works
  • Clermont (1693). Geometrie pratique de l'ingenieur, ou L'art de mesurer (in French). A Strasbourg: Friedrich Wilhelm Schmuck.
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References
  1. Clermont (Sieur de.) (1755). Oeuvres de m. Clermont: contenant La geometrie-pratique de l'ingenieur, et L'arithmetique militaire (in French). Chez Briasson, libraire.
  2. Clermont (de.) (1775). La géométrie pratique de l'ingénieur, ou, l'art de mesurer: ouvrage également nécessaire aux ingénieurs, aux toiseurs & aux arpenteurs (in French). C.-A. Jombert.
  3. La France littéraire ou Dictionnaire bibliographique des savants, historiens et gens de lettres de la France, ainsi que des littérateurs étrangers qui ont écrit en français
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