Guillaume Le Blond

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Guillaume Le Blond (* 1704 in Paris ; † 1781 ) was a French mathematician , military theorist and encyclopaedist .

Eléments de fortification , 1752

Live and act

He was a teacher of mathematics and secretary of the Victoire de France (1733–1799). He held his mathematics professorship in 1736 at the École des pages de la Grande Écurie du roi in Versailles . Although he was not personally a military man, he wrote a large number of military-related works, such as mathematical foundations for officers, fortress building , treatises on battle orders and the like.

Works (selection)

  • L'artillerie raisonnée contenant la description et l'usage des différentes bouches à feu ... la theory et la pratique des mines et du jet des bombes. Jombert, Paris (1761)
  • Traité de l'attaque des places. Chez Charles-Antoine Jombert, Paris (1762)
  • Elémens de fortification. Paris (1775)

literature

  • Janis Langins: Conserving the Enlightenment: French Military Engineering from Vauban to the Revolution. MIT-Press, Cambridge (2004) ISBN 0-2621-2258-8

Web links

Wikisource: Guillaume Le Blond  - Sources and full texts (French)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Theo Stammen and Wolfgang EJ Weber (eds.): Knowledge assurance, knowledge order and knowledge processing: The European model of encyclopedias. Oldenbourg Akademieverlag (2004) ISBN 3-0500-3776-8 p. 374
  2. ↑ Frank A. Kafker: Notices sur les auteurs of dix-sept volumes de "discours" de l 'Encyclopédie. Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie Année (1989) Volume 7 Numéro 7 p. 150
personal data
SURNAME Le Blond, Guillaume
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leblond, Guillaume
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French mathematician, encyclopedist and military theorist
DATE OF BIRTH 1704
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH 1781