Joseph-Aignan Sigaud de Lafond

Joseph-Aignan Sigaud de Lafond (5 January 1730, Bourges – 26 January 1810, Bourges) was a French experimental physicist, chemist, obstetrician, professor, and author.

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Joseph-Aignan Sigaud de Lafond
Bust of Sigaud de Lafond, in Bourges
Born	5 January 1730 Bourges
Died	26 January 1810 Bourges
Other names	A. J. S. D.
Occupation(s)	Obstetrician, physicist, chemist, teacher, and author

He originally planned to be a Jesuit priest, but decided to study to become a physician instead.^[1] While pursuing a medical career as an obstetrician, he became one of the most dedicated attendants of the lectures by the abbot Jean-Antoine Nollet (1700–1770). In 1760, he succeeded Nollet to the chair of experimental physics at the Collège Louis le Grand in Paris. In 1795, he became a professor of physics and chemistry at the École Centrale. His treatise Description et usage d'un cabinet de physique (Paris, 1775) is a compendium of the experimental physics of his time.^[2]^[3] He was a student of Jean Antoine Nollet.^[4]

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He was a prolific author, writing treatises on experimental physics, particularly those dealing with electricity, alongside almanacs and works on religion.

Leçons de physique expérimentale (1767; 2 volumes: 1 and 2)
Leçons sur l’économie animale (1767; 2 volumes)
Cours de physique expérimentale et de mathématiques (1769; 3 volumes, translation of work by Pieter van Musschenbroek)
Lettre à Monsieur de Casan sur l'Electricité médicale (1771)
Traité de l'électricité (1771)
Various calendars and almanacs (from 1772 to 1782)
Récréations mathématiques et physiques (1778; 4 volumes)
Dictionnaire de physique (1781; 4 volumes: 1, 3, 4)
Dictionnaire des merveilles de la nature (1781-1802; 3 volumes)
École du bonheur ou tableau des vertus sociales (1782-1791)
Description et usage d'un cabinet de physique expérimentale (1784; 2 volumes)
Précis historique et expérience des phénomènes électriques depuis l'origine de cette découverte jusqu'à nos jours (1785; 1)
La religion défendue contre l'incrédulité du siècle (1785; 6 volumes)
Économie de la Providence dans l'établissement de la religion (1787; 2 volumes)
Elémens de physique théorique et expérimentale (1787; 4 volumes)
Bibliothèque universelle des dames - Physique générale et particulière (1788-1792)
Traité de physique particulière (1792)
Examen de quelques principes erronés en électricité (1796)
De l'électricité médicale (1802)

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