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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
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BERTRAND
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CASTEL (1688-1757)  ,
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French mathematician, was
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born at
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Montpellier on the rlth of
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November 1688, and entered the
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order of the
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Jesuits in 1703 . Having studied literature, he afterwards devoted himself entirely to
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mathematics and natural
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philosophy . He wrote several scientific
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works, that which attracted most
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attention at the
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time being his Optique
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des couleurs (1740), or
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treatise on the
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melody of
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colours . He endeavoured to illustrate the subject by a
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clavecin oculaire, or ocular
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harpsichord; but the treatise and the
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illustration were quickly forgotten . He also wrote Mathematique universelle (1728) and Traite de physique sur la pesanteur universelle des
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corps (1724) . He also published a
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critical
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account of the
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system of
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Sir
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Isaac
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Newton in French in 1743 .

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