Louis Bertrand Castel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Louis Bertrand Castel

Mathematician, philosopher

Date of Birth: 15-Nov-1688

Place of Birth: Montpellier, Occitania, France

Date of Death: 09-Jan-1757

Profession: physicist, mathematician

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Louis Bertrand Castel (5 November 1688 – 11 January 1757) was a French mathematician born in Montpellier, who entered the order of the Jesuits in 1703.
Having studied literature, he afterwards devoted himself entirely to mathematics and natural philosophy.
After moving from Toulouse to Paris in 1720, at the behest of Bernard de Fontenelle, Castel acted as the science editor of the Jesuit Journal de Trévoux.He wrote several scientific works, that which attracted most attention at the time being his Optique des couleurs (1740), or treatise on the melody of colours.
He also wrote Traité de physique sur la pesanteur universelle des corps (1724), Mathématique universelle (1728), and a critical account of the system of Sir Isaac Newton in 1743.



Alternative names	Charles-Germain de Saint-Aubin; Charles Germain de Saint-Aubin; Charles Germain Saint-Aubin; Saint-Aubin; Sieur de Saint-Aubin; Charles Germain De Saint-Aubin
Description	French graphic artist brother of Augustin de Saint-Aubin brother of Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin
Date of birth/death	17 January 1721	6 March 1786
Location of birth/death	Paris	Paris
Work period	rococo era QS:P2348,Q122960
Work location	Paris
Authority control	: Q2958097 VIAF: 32105664 ISNI: 0000 0000 8369 4343 ULAN: 500000812 LCCN: n83008553 WGA: SAINT-AUBIN, Charles-Germain de WorldCat