Le Poivre, Jacques-François

1. Dates

Born: fl

Died:

Dateinfo: Dates Certain

Lifespan:

2. Father

Occupation: No Information

No information on financial status.

3. Nationality

Birth: French

Career: French

Death: French

4. Education

Schooling: No University

He is known by his Traité, a short treatise. According to the review of this work in the Journal des sciences, he lived in Mons and worked on the treatise for three years; nothing more is known about him.

5. Religion

Affiliation: Catholic (by assumption)

6. Scientific Disciplines

Primary: Mathematics

He is known by his short treatise, Traité des sections du cylindre et du cone considerées dans le solide et dans le plan, avec les demonstrations simples & nouvelles (Paris, 1704).

7. Means of Support

Primary: Unknown

8. Patronage

Type: None

9. Technological Involvement

Types: None

10. Scientific Societies

Memberships: None

Sources

1. The entry for Le Poivre in the Nouvelle biographie générale, 30, (Paris, 1862), 852. CT 143.H6 RF There is just not any information about Le Poivre.

Compiled by:

Richard S. Westfall

Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Indiana University

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