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CHARLES ETIENNE LOUIS CAMUS (1699-1768)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 140 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHARLES See also:ETIENNE See also:LOUIS See also:CAMUS (1699-1768)  , See also:French mathematician and mechanician, was See also:born at See also:Crecy-en-See also:Brie, near See also:Meaux, on the 25th of See also:August 1699 . He studied See also:mathematics, See also:civil and military See also:architecture, and See also:astronomy, and became See also:associate of the See also:Academic See also:des Sciences, See also:professor of See also:geometry, secretary to the See also:Academy of Architecture and See also:fellow of the Royal Society of See also:London . In 1736 he accompanied See also:Pierre See also:Louis See also:Maupertuis and See also:Alexis See also:Claude Clairaut in the expedition to See also:Lapland for the measurement of a degree of the See also:meridian . He died on the 2nd of See also:February 1768 . He was the author of a Cours de mathematiques (See also:Paris, 1766), and a number of essays on mathematical and See also:mechanical subjects (see See also:Poggendorff . Biog.-lit . Handworterbuch) .

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