Pierre Lemonnier

Pierre Lemonnier (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.[1][2][3]

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[4]
  • Volume 2 - Metaphysica[5]
  • Volume 3 - Physica Generalis[6] including mechanics and geometry
  • Volume 4 - Physica Particularis (Part I)[7] including astronomy (Ptolemaic, Copernican, Tychonic), optics, chemistry, gravity, and Newtonian versus Cartesian dynamics
  • Volume 5 - Physica Particularis (Part II)[8] including fluid mechanics, human anatomy, magnetism, and miscellaneous subjects (earthquakes, electricity, botany, metallurgy, etc. ...)
  • Volume 6 - Moralis[9] including appendices on trigonometry and sundials

He was also the father of Pierre Charles Le Monnier and Louis-Guillaume Le Monnier.

See also
  • Johann Baptiste Horvath
  • Andreas Jaszlinszky
  • Edmond Pourchot
  • Philip of the Blessed Trinity
  • Charles Morton

References
  1. "Pierre Lemonnier". www.cosmovisions.com. Retrieved 2016-03-24.
  2. Thomas, Joseph. Universal Pronouncing Dictionary of Biography and Mythology. Lippincott, 1901.
  3. http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/%C3%89loge_historique_de_Lemmonier
  4. Pierre Lemonnier (1754). Cursus philosophicus: ad scholarum usum accommodatus. apud Jacobum Rollin. pp. 220–.
  5. Pierre Lemonnier (1754). Cursus philosophicus: ad scholarum usum accommodatus. Apud Jacobum Rollin. pp. 240–.
  6. Lemonnier, Pierre (1750-01-01). Cursus philosophicus ad scholarum usum accomodatus (in Latin).
  7. Lemonnier, Pierre (1750-01-01). Cursus philosophicus: ad scholarum usum accommodatus (in Latin). apud Ludovicum Genneau.
  8. Lemonnier, Pierre (1750-01-01). Cursus philosophicus: ad scholarum usum accommodatus (in Latin). apud Ludovicum Genneau.
  9. Lemonnier, Pierre (1750-01-01). Cursus philosophicus ad scholarum usum accomodatus (in Latin).
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