Mathematician:Pierre Bouguer

French mathematician, geophysicist, geodesist and astronomer.

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

Nationality
French

History

 * Born: February 16, 1698
 * Died: August 15, 1758

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 August Beer and Johann Heinrich Lambert)

Books and Papers

 * 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