Pierre Bouguer (French:[buˈge]) (16 February 1698, Le Croisic – 15 August 1758, Paris) was a French mathematician, geophysicist, geodesist, and astronomer. He is also known as "the father of naval architecture".
PierreBouguer (French: [buˈge]) (16 February 1698, Le Croisic – 15 August 1758, Paris) was a French mathematician, geophysicist, geodesist, and astronomer...
In geodesy and geophysics, the Bouguer anomaly (named after PierreBouguer) is a gravity anomaly, corrected for the height at which it is measured and...
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the late 17th century, the notion was disproven, first tentatively by PierreBouguer in 1740, then definitively by Charles Hutton in his Schiehallion experiment...
Geodesic Mission of the French Academy of Sciences, led by Louis Godin, PierreBouguer and Charles Marie de La Condamine, who, in the year 1736, conducted...
would be too small to be measurable. An expedition from 1737 to 1740 by PierreBouguer and Charles Marie de La Condamine attempted to determine the density...
Wallis 1734 (with double horizontal bar below the inequality sign) PierreBouguer d differential sign 1675 Gottfried Leibniz ∫ integral sign : colon (for...
deposits. The eruption on 19 June 1742 was witnessed by the scientists PierreBouguer and Charles-Marie de La Condamine, members of the French Geodesic Mission...
including sons PierreBouguer, who succeeded him in his position at Le Croisic and continued the family navigation school, and Jan Bouguer, who took over...
needed] The pursuit curve was first studied by PierreBouguer in 1732. In an article on navigation, Bouguer defined a curve of pursuit to explore the way...
measurement was attempted in 1738 by PierreBouguer and Charles Marie de La Condamine in their "Peruvian expedition". Bouguer downplayed the significance of...
involving measurement expeditions to Lapland (Maupertuis et al.) and Peru (PierreBouguer et al.). Struve measured a geodetic control network via triangulation...
mission was led by French astronomers Charles Marie de La Condamine, PierreBouguer, Louis Godin and Spanish geographers Jorge Juan and Antonio de Ulloa...
Lambert also cited a law of light absorption, formulated earlier by PierreBouguer he is mistakenly credited for (the Beer–Lambert law) and introduced...
posed that year was to find the best way to place the masts on a ship. PierreBouguer, who became known as "the father of naval architecture", won and Euler...
based his general theory of relativity. 1737: French mathematician PierreBouguer made a sophisticated series of pendulum observations in the Andes mountains...
based on abnormalities in plumb line deflection by the Andes in Peru, PierreBouguer had deduced that less-dense mountains must have a downward projection...
1748.: 160 Initially the assessors were dominated by the astronomer PierreBouguer who was opposed to the idea of chronometers, but after his death in...
light is traveling. Independently discovered (in various forms) by PierreBouguer in 1729, Johann Heinrich Lambert in 1760 and August Beer in 1852. Benford's...
literature until almost a hundred years later. A pair of French astronomers, PierreBouguer and Charles Marie de La Condamine, were the first to attempt the experiment...
degrees of latitude orthogonal to the arctic circle, while Louis Godin, PierreBouguer, and La Condamine were sent to South America to perform similar measurements...
The subject of photometry remained in its infancy until the time of PierreBouguer and Johann Heinrich Lambert. Huygens has been called the first theoretical...
astronomical measures is due to Servington Savery of Shilstone in 1743. PierreBouguer, in 1748, originated the true conception of measurement by double image...
Edinburgh (Scotland). Stephen Gray discovers electrical conduction. PierreBouguer publishes Essai d'optique sur la gradation de la lumière, defining the...
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