{"id":92,"date":"2019-02-03T00:08:29","date_gmt":"2019-02-03T00:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anagrams.karljones.com\/?p=92"},"modified":"2019-02-02T18:20:46","modified_gmt":"2019-02-03T00:20:46","slug":"calculation-his-serene-muse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anagrams.karljones.com\/wpanagrams\/2019\/02\/03\/calculation-his-serene-muse\/","title":{"rendered":"Calculation, His Serene Muse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/anagrams.karljones.com\/wpanagrams\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Charles_Camus_-_Cours_de_math\u00e9matique-171x300.jpg\" alt=\"Title page of Cours de math\u00e9matique (vol. 1) by French mathematician Charles \u00c9tienne Louis Camus; first published in 1749\" width=\"171\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-93\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anagrams.karljones.com\/wpanagrams\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Charles_Camus_-_Cours_de_math\u00e9matique-171x300.jpg 171w, https:\/\/anagrams.karljones.com\/wpanagrams\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Charles_Camus_-_Cours_de_math\u00e9matique-100x175.jpg 100w, https:\/\/anagrams.karljones.com\/wpanagrams\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Charles_Camus_-_Cours_de_math\u00e9matique-150x263.jpg 150w, https:\/\/anagrams.karljones.com\/wpanagrams\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Charles_Camus_-_Cours_de_math\u00e9matique-200x350.jpg 200w, https:\/\/anagrams.karljones.com\/wpanagrams\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Charles_Camus_-_Cours_de_math\u00e9matique-300x525.jpg 300w, https:\/\/anagrams.karljones.com\/wpanagrams\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Charles_Camus_-_Cours_de_math\u00e9matique.jpg 342w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 171px) 100vw, 171px\" \/><strong>Charles \u00c9tienne Louis Camus<\/strong> (25 August 1699 \u2013 2 February 1768) was a French mathematician and mechanician who was born at Cr\u00e9cy-en-Brie, near Meaux.<\/p>\n<p>He studied mathematics, civil and military architecture, and astronomy after leaving Coll\u00e8ge de Navarre in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>In 1730 he was appointed professor of architecture and, in 1733, associate of the Acad\u00e9mie des Sciences. He also became a professor of geometry, secretary to the Academy of Architecture and fellow of the Royal Society of London. In 1727 he presented a memoir to the academy on masting ships, in consequence of which he was named the same year joint mechanician to that body.<\/p>\n<p>In 1736 he accompanied Pierre Louis Maupertuis and Alexis Claude Clairaut in the expedition to Lapland for the measurement of a degree of meridian arc.<\/p>\n<p>He was the author of Cours de math\u00e9matiques (Paris, 1766), along with a number of essays on mathematical and mechanical subjects.<\/p>\n<p>He was also employed in a variety of public works, and in 1765 was chosen a fellow of the Royal Society of London.<\/p>\n<p>He died in 1768.<\/p>\n<p>See:<\/p>\n<p>* <a href=\"http:\/\/gnomonchronicles.com\/wiki\/Charles_%C3%89tienne_Louis_Camus_(nonfiction)\">Charles \u00c9tienne Louis Camus (nonfiction)<\/a> @ Gnomon Chronicles<br \/>\n* <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles_%C3%89tienne_Louis_Camus\">Charles \u00c9tienne Louis Camus<\/a> @ Wikipedia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles \u00c9tienne Louis Camus (25 August 1699 \u2013 2 February 1768) was a French mathematician and mechanician who was born at Cr\u00e9cy-en-Brie, near Meaux. He studied mathematics, civil and military architecture, and astronomy after leaving Coll\u00e8ge de Navarre in Paris.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/anagrams.karljones.com\/wpanagrams\/2019\/02\/03\/calculation-his-serene-muse\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-people"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anagrams.karljones.com\/wpanagrams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anagrams.karljones.com\/wpanagrams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anagrams.karljones.com\/wpanagrams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anagrams.karljones.com\/wpanagrams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anagrams.karljones.com\/wpanagrams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/anagrams.karljones.com\/wpanagrams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95,"href":"https:\/\/anagrams.karljones.com\/wpanagrams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/95"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anagrams.karljones.com\/wpanagrams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anagrams.karljones.com\/wpanagrams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anagrams.karljones.com\/wpanagrams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}