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Name
  
Antoine Deparcieux

Role
  
Mathematician

Antoine Deparcieux
Died
  
September 2, 1768, Paris, France

Antoine Deparcieux (28 October 1703 – 2 September 1768) was a French mathematician. He was born at Clessous in the Portes, department of Gard. He attended the school of Saint Florent for 10 years while working on his family farm. In 1725, his desire for learning took him to Lyon, where he studied at a Jesuit school for five years. Then, in 1730, he went to Paris to increase his knowledge of mathematics and physics. He made a living by manufacturing sundials.

In 1746, he became a member of the Academy of Sciences, and in about 1765 was named Censeur Royal. He was also librarian at the University of Strasbourg, and member of the Academy of Sciences of Paris, Montpellier, Lyon, Amiens, Metz, Berlin, and Stockholm.

Accomplishments

Among his constructions were:

  • A machine to raise water at Crecy castle
  • A pump for castle of Arnouville
  • A press for the production of tobacco

    • He also published many works, including:

  • Traite de trigonometrie rectiligne et spherique (1738), approved by the Academy of Sciences
  • Nouveau traite de trigonometrie, (avec table des sinus et logarithmes) (1740)
  • Traite complet de Gnomonique (1741)
  • Essai sur les probabilites de la duree de la vie humaine (1746) ("Essay on the probabilities of the human lifespan"), which is the work for which he is best known
  • Memoire sur la courbure des ondes (1747)

    • In 1758, Deparcieux was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

    References

    Antoine Deparcieux Wikipedia
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