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