Gaspard Monge, Comte de Péluse (10 May 1746 – 28 July 1818) was the a French mathematician and inventor of descriptive geometry.
He was born at Beaune, Côte-d'Or. He was first educated at the college of the Oratorians at Beaune, and then in their college at Lyon - where, at sixteen, the year after he had been learning physics, he was made a teacher of it. Returning to Beaune for a vacation, he made, on a large scale, a plan of the town, inventing...
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Gaspard Monge, Comte de Péluse (10 May 1746 – 28 July 1818) was the a French mathematician and inventor of descriptive geometry.
He was born at Beaune, Côte-d'Or. He was first educated at the college of the Oratorians at Beaune, and then in their college at Lyon - where, at sixteen, the year after he had been learning physics, he was made a teacher of it. Returning to Beaune for a vacation, he made, on a large scale, a plan of the town, inventing the methods of observation and constructing the necessary instruments; the plan was presented to the town, and preserved in their library. An officer of engineers seeing it wrote to recommend Monge to the commandant of the military school at Mézières, and he was received as a draftsman and pupil in the practical school attached to that institution; the school itself was of too aristocratic a character to allow his admission to it. His manual skill was duly appreciated: "I was a thousand times tempted," he said long afterwards, "to tear up my...
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