LOUIS BERTRAND CASTEL (1688-1757)
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V05,
Page 469
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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:BERTRAND See also:CASTEL (1688-1757)
, See also:French mathematician, was See also:born at See also:Montpellier on the rlth of See also:November 1688, and entered the See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order of the See also:Jesuits in 1703
.
Having studied literature, he afterwards devoted himself entirely to See also:mathematics and natural See also:philosophy
.
He wrote several scientific See also:works, that which attracted most See also:attention at the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time being his Optique See also:des couleurs (1740), or See also:treatise on the See also:melody of See also:colours
.
He endeavoured to illustrate the subject by a See also:clavecin oculaire, or ocular See also:harpsichord; but the treatise and the See also:illustration were quickly forgotten
.
He also wrote Mathematique universelle (1728) and Traite de physique sur la pesanteur universelle des See also:corps (1724)
.
He also published a See also:critical See also:account of the See also:system of See also:Sir See also:Isaac See also:Newton in French in 1743
.
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