CHARLES

See also:

• ETIENNE, CHARLES GUILLAUME (1778-1845)

ETIENNE

See also:

• LOUIS
• LOUIS (804–876)
• LOUIS (893–911)
• LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
• LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian

LOUIS

See also:

• CAMUS, ARMAND GASTON (1740-1804)
• CHARLES ETIENNE LOUIS CAMUS (1699-1768)
• CAMUS, FRANCOIS JOSEPH DES (1672-1732)

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