Pierre Lemonnier (physicist)
Pierre Lemonnier was a French astronomer, a professor of Physics and Philosophy at the Collège d'Harcourt, and a member of the French Academy of Sciences.
Lemonnier published the 6-volume Latin university textbook Cursus philosophicus ad scholarum usum accommodatus which consisted of the following volumes :
- Volume 1 - Logica
- Volume 2 - Metaphysica
- Volume 3 - Physica Generalis including mechanics and geometry
- Volume 4 - Physica Particularis including astronomy, optics, chemistry, gravity, and Newtonian versus Cartesian dynamics
- Volume 5 - Physica Particularis including fluid mechanics, human anatomy, magnetism, and miscellaneous subjects
- Volume 6 - Moralis including appendices on trigonometry and sundials