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LOUIS BERTRAND CASTEL (1688-1757)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 469 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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 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 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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