Mathematician:Pierre Bouguer

Mathematician
French mathematician, geophysicist, geodesist and astronomer.

The first known discoverer of what is now generally known as the Beer-Lambert-Bouguer Law.

Measured the acceleration of free-fall using a pendulum.

Was the first to notice that the period of a pendulum could be affected by the gravitational force exerted by a high mountain.

Nationality
French

History

 * Born: 16 February 1698 in Le Croisic in lower Brittany
 * Died: 15 August 1758 in Paris

Theorems and Definitions

 * The Beer-Lambert-Bouguer Law, also known as the Lambert-Beer Law, Beer's Law, the Beer-Lambert Law or Lambert's Law (with and )

Publications

 * 1727: On the masting of ships
 * 1727: On the best method of observing the altitude of stars at sea
 * 1727: On the best method of observing the variation of the compass at sea
 * 1729: Essai d'optique sur la gradation de la lumière
 * 1746: Traité du navire
 * 1749: La figure de la terre: déterminée par les observations de messieurs