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Philippe de La Hire, the Glossary

Philippe de La Hire (or Lahire, La Hyre or Phillipe de La Hire) (18 March 1640 – 21 April 1718) Benezit Dictionary of Artists.^[1]

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17th-century French astronomers
Magic squares

Académie royale d'architecture

The Académie Royale d'Architecture ("Royal Academy of Architecture") was a French learned society founded in 1671. Philippe de La Hire and Académie royale d'architecture are members of the Académie royale d'architecture.

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Aerial telescope

An aerial telescope is a type of very long focal length refracting telescope, built in the second half of the 17th century, that did not use a tube.

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Architect

An architect is a person who plans, designs, and oversees the construction of buildings.

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Architecture

Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction.

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Astronomer

An astronomer is a scientist in the field of astronomy who focuses their studies on a specific question or field outside the scope of Earth.

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Astronomy

Astronomy is a natural science that studies celestial objects and the phenomena that occur in the cosmos.

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Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle

Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle (11 February 16579 January 1757), also called Bernard Le Bouyer de Fontenelle, was a French author and an influential member of three of the academies of the Institut de France, noted especially for his accessible treatment of scientific topics during the unfolding of the Age of Enlightenment.

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Catholic Encyclopedia

The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church, also referred to as the Old Catholic Encyclopedia and the Original Catholic Encyclopedia, is an English-language encyclopedia published in the United States designed to serve the Catholic Church.

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Christiaan Huygens

Christiaan Huygens, Lord of Zeelhem, (also spelled Huyghens; Hugenius; 14 April 1629 – 8 July 1695) was a Dutch mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor who is regarded as a key figure in the Scientific Revolution.

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Claude Dechales

Claude François Milliet Dechales (1621 – 28 March 1678) was a French Jesuit priest and mathematician.

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Collège de France

The, formerly known as the or as the Collège impérial founded in 1530 by François I, is a higher education and research establishment in France.

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Conchoid (mathematics)

In geometry, a conchoid is a curve derived from a fixed point, another curve, and a length.

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Conic section

A conic section, conic or a quadratic curve is a curve obtained from a cone's surface intersecting a plane.

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Constantijn Huygens Jr.

Constantijn Huygens Jr., Lord of Zuilichem (10 March 1628 – October 1697), was a Dutch statesman and poet, mostly known for his work on scientific instruments (sometimes together with his younger brother Christiaan Huygens).

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Dictionary of Seventeenth-Century French Philosophers

The Dictionary of Seventeenth-Century French Philosophers is a dictionary of philosophical writers in France between 1601 and 1700, edited by Luc Foisneau.

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Epicycloid

In geometry, an epicycloid (also called hypercycloid) is a plane curve produced by tracing the path of a chosen point on the circumference of a circle—called an epicycle—which rolls without slipping around a fixed circle.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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French Academy of Sciences

The French Academy of Sciences (French: Académie des sciences) is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French scientific research.

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Friction

Friction is the force resisting the relative motion of solid surfaces, fluid layers, and material elements sliding against each other.

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Gabriel-Philippe de La Hire

Gabriel-Philippe de La Hire (25 July 1677 – 4 June 1719) was a French scientist, son of the astronomer Philippe de la Hire, who also contributed to astronomy but made some contributions to medicine and other sciences as well.

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Giovanni Domenico Cassini

Giovanni Domenico Cassini, also known as Jean-Dominique Cassini (8 June 1625 – 14 September 1712) was an Italian (naturalised French) mathematician, astronomer and engineer.

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Girard Desargues

Girard Desargues (21 February 1591September 1661) was a French mathematician and engineer, who is considered one of the founders of projective geometry. Philippe de La Hire and Girard Desargues are 17th-century French mathematicians.

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Gnomonics

Gnomonics (from the ancient Greek word γνώμων,, meaning 'interpreter, discerner') is the study of the design, construction and use of sundials.

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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (– 14 November 1716) was a German polymath active as a mathematician, philosopher, scientist and diplomat who invented calculus in addition to many other branches of mathematics, such as binary arithmetic, and statistics.

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Guillaume Amontons

Guillaume Amontons (31 August 1663 – 11 October 1705) was a French scientific instrument inventor and physicist. Philippe de La Hire and Guillaume Amontons are Tribologists.

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Honoré Fabri

Honoré Fabri (Honoratus Fabrius; 5 April 1607 or 8 April 1608 – 8 March 1688) was a French Jesuit theologian, also known as Coningius. Philippe de La Hire and Honoré Fabri are 17th-century French mathematicians.

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Jacques Buot

Jacques Buot (before 1623 – January 1678) was a French mathematician, engineer, physicist, and astronomer.

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Laurent de La Hyre

Laurent de La Hyre (27 February 1606 – 28 December 1656) was a French Baroque painter, born in Paris.

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Magic square

In mathematics, especially historical and recreational mathematics, a square array of numbers, usually positive integers, is called a magic square if the sums of the numbers in each row, each column, and both main diagonals are the same. Philippe de La Hire and magic square are magic squares.

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Manuel Moschopoulos

Manuel Moschopoulos (Latinized as Manuel Moschopulus; Mανουὴλ Μοσχόπουλος), was a Byzantine commentator and grammarian, who lived during the end of the 13th and the beginning of the 14th century and was an important figure in the Palaiologan Renaissance. Philippe de La Hire and Manuel Moschopoulos are magic squares.

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Marin Mersenne

Marin Mersenne, OM (also known as Marinus Mersennus or le Père Mersenne;; 8 September 1588 – 1 September 1648) was a French polymath whose works touched a wide variety of fields. Philippe de La Hire and Marin Mersenne are 17th-century French mathematicians.

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Mathematician

A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems.

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Mathematics

Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes abstract objects, methods, theories and theorems that are developed and proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself.

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Mons La Hire

Mons La Hire is a solitary lunar mountain in the western Mare Imbrium.

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Painting

Painting is a visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support").

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Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city of France.

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Paris meridian

The Paris meridian is a meridian line running through the Paris Observatory in Paris, France – now longitude 2°20′14.02500″ East.

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Paris Observatory

The Paris Observatory (Observatoire de Paris), a research institution of the Paris Sciences et Lettres University, is the foremost astronomical observatory of France, and one of the largest astronomical centers in the world.

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Perspective (graphical)

Linear or point-projection perspective is one of two types of graphical projection perspective in the graphic arts; the other is parallel projection.

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Public domain

The public domain (PD) consists of all the creative work to which no exclusive intellectual property rights apply.

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René Descartes

René Descartes (or;; 31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650) was a French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, widely considered a seminal figure in the emergence of modern philosophy and science. Philippe de La Hire and René Descartes are 17th-century French mathematicians.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_de_La_Hire

Also known as De la Hire, Lahire, Philippe La Hire, Phillipe de La Hire.

Philippe de La Hire, the Glossary

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17th-century French astronomers

Magic squares

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