// Workers AI · dad joke modeWho's Claude Mydorge? My-dorge-ous mathematician.
Claude Mydorge (1585 – July 1647) was a French mathematician. His primary contributions were in geometry and physics.
Mydorge served on a scientific committee (whose members included Pierre Hérigone and Étienne Pascal) set up to determine whether Jean-Baptiste Morin's scheme for determining longitude from the Moon's motion was practical.
Works
[edit]- Mydorge, Claude (1625). Usage de l'un et l'autre astrolabe particulier et universel (in French). Jean Moreau.
- Mydorge, Claude (1639). Prodromi catoptricorum et dioptricorum sive Conicorum operis ad abdita radii reflexi et refracti mysteria praevij et facem praeferentis (in Latin). Isaac Dedin.
External links
[edit]- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Claude Mydorge", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
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