Guillaume Le Blond
Guillaume Le Blond (1705 – May 24, 1781) was a French mathematician. He was born in Paris.
He was a professor of mathematics at the grand stable of the King (1736) and then the
Madame Victoire
.
Le Blond wrote the following works, some of which have been translated into
Ottoman Turkish language in 1833 as "Usûl-i İstihkâmât"(Method of Fortifications) by Ishak Efendi.[1]
- Essai sur la castramétation, 1748, in-8°);
- Éléments de tactique, 1758, in-4°;
- Artillerie raisonnée contenant l’usage des différentes bouches à feu, 1761, in-8°;
- l’Arithmétique et la géométrie de l’officier, 1768, 2 vol. in-8°;
- Traité de l’attaque des places, 1780, in-8°;
- Éléments de fortification, 1739, in-8°.
He also produced editions of Mémoires d’artillerie by Pierre Surirey de Saint-Remy and the Géométrie by Joseph Sauveur and collaborated on the Encyclopédie.
References
- ^ "İSHAK EFENDİ, Başhoca - TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi". islamansiklopedisi.org.tr. Retrieved 2020-03-20.
Sources
- Pierre Larousse, Grand Dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle, vol. 10, Paris, Administration du grand Dictionnaire universel, (p. 288).
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