Claude Mydorge

Claude Mydorge (1585 – July 1647) was a French mathematician. His primary contributions were in geometry and physics.

Prodromi catoptricorum et dioptricorum sive Conicorum operis ad abdita radii reflexi et refracti mysteria praevij et facem praeferentis, 1639

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

• 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

• O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Claude Mydorge", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews