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Cartesian planetary vortices, Physica Particularis , 1754.
Pierre Lemonnier (French pronunciation:
[pjɛʁ ləmɔnje] ; 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 .
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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 .
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