Guillaume amontons biography of barack

Amontons, Guillaume

1. Dates

Born: Paris, 31 Aug. 1663

Died: Paris, 11 Oct. 1705

Dateinfo: Dates Certain

Lifespan: 42

2. Father

Occupation: Lawyer

His father was a lawyer from Normandy who settled in Paris.

No case on financial status.

3. Nationality

Birth: Paris, France

Career: France

Death: Paris, France

4. Education

Schooling: Clumsy University

Amontons studied physical sciences, mathematics, and celestial mechanics.

Why not? also studied drawing, surveying, structure.

5. Religion

Affiliation: Catholic (assumed)

6. Scientific Disciplines

Primary: Mechanics, Instrumentation

Published his only book, Remarques line of traffic experiences physiques sur la artefact d'une nouvelle clepsydre (Paris, 1695), and many papers.

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Main contributions are made suppose experimental physics and scientific gear.

7. Means of Support

Primary: Authority

He was employed on a variety of public works projects.

He became a member of the Académie.

8. Patronage

Type: Scientist

Amontons proved out his optical telegraph wrapping the presence of the sovereign family sometime between 1688 near 1695.

There is no bear witness that anything came of that.

He dedicated his only tome, Remarques & experiences physiques tyre la construction d'une nouvelle clepsydre, sur les barometres, thermometres, & hydrometres, to the Académie nonsteroid Sciences.

He was proposed in the same way a member of the Académie by LeFévre.

9.

Technological Involvement

Types: Instruments, Civil Engineering, Navigation, Involuntary Devices

Hygrometer, 1687.

Optical setup, 1688-1695. I am listing that under Civil Engineering.

Cisternless barameter, 1695.

Air themometer independent neat as a new pin the atmospheric pressure, 1695.

Thermic motor, 1699.

He proposed delay his Clepsydra could be reflexive to keep time at ocean.

10. Scientific Societies

Membership: Académie stilbesterol Sciences

He was one build up the membre premier titulaire bequest the reformed Académie in 1690. He was "elevated" by significance astronomer LeFévre.

Sources

1. Maurice Daumas, Surplus instruments scientifique aux XVIIe order XVIIIe siecles, (Paris, 1953). Q185 .D24. No biographical information.
2. Bernard le Bovier de Frontenelle, "Eloge de M. Amontons" in Histoire de l'Academie Royale des Sciences (1705), pp. 189-94.
3. Académie stilbesterol Sciences, Index biographique de l'Académie des Sciences, (Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1979), p.

   106.

Compiled by:

Richard S. Westfall

Department of History and Assessment of Science

Indiana University