Pierre Lemonnier (physicist)
Pierre Lemonnier ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}; aka Petro Lemonnier; 28 June 1675 in Saint-Sever – 27 November 1757 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye) was a French astronomer, a professor of Physics and Philosophy at the Collège d'Harcourt (University of Paris), and a member of the French Academy of Sciences.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Thomas, Joseph. Universal Pronouncing Dictionary of Biography and Mythology. Lippincott, 1901.</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Lemonnier published the 6-volume Latin university textbook Cursus philosophicus ad scholarum usum accommodatus (Paris, 1750/1754) which consisted of the following volumes (generally consistent with the Ratio Studiorum):
- Volume 1 - Logica<ref name="Lemonnier1754">Template:Cite book</ref>
- Volume 2 - Metaphysica<ref name="Lemonnier1754-2">Template:Cite book</ref>
- Volume 3 - Physica Generalis<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> including mechanics and geometry
- Volume 4 - Physica Particularis (Part I)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> including astronomy (Ptolemaic, Copernican, Tychonic), optics, chemistry, gravity, and Newtonian versus Cartesian dynamics
- Volume 5 - Physica Particularis (Part II)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> including fluid mechanics, human anatomy, magnetism, and miscellaneous subjects (earthquakes, electricity, botany, metallurgy, etc. ...)
- Volume 6 - Moralis<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> including appendices on trigonometry and sundials
He was also the father of Pierre Charles Le Monnier and Louis-Guillaume Le Monnier.
See alsoEdit
- Johann Baptiste Horvath
- Andreas Jaszlinszky
- Edmond Pourchot
- Philip of the Blessed Trinity
- Charles Morton