Cartesian planetary vortices, Physica Particularis , 1754. Pierre Lemonnier (aka Petro Lemonnier ) (28 June 1675 in Saint-Sever – 27 November 1757 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye ) was a French astronomer, a professor of Physics and Philosophy at the Collège d'Harcourt (University of Paris ), and a member of the French Academy of Sciences .[1] [2] [3]
Lemonnier published the 6-volume Latin university textbook Cursus philosophicus ad scholarum usum accommodatus (Paris, 1750/1754) which consisted of the following volumes (generally consistent with the Ratio Studiorum ):
Volume 1 - Logica [4]
Volume 2 - Metaphysica [5]
Volume 3 - Physica Generalis [6] including mechanics and geometry
Volume 4 - Physica Particularis (Part I)[7] including astronomy (Ptolemaic , Copernican , Tychonic ), optics , chemistry , gravity , and Newtonian versus Cartesian dynamics
Volume 5 - Physica Particularis (Part II)[8] including fluid mechanics , human anatomy , magnetism , and miscellaneous subjects (earthquakes , electricity , botany , metallurgy , etc. ...)
Volume 6 - Moralis [9] including appendices on trigonometry and sundials He was also the father of Pierre Charles Le Monnier and Louis-Guillaume Le Monnier .