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Jean-Baptiste-Marie charles meusnier de la place (1754–1793): an historical note

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  1. For a good description of that school and its circumstances about ten years earlier, see pp. 9–18 of C. Stewart Gillmor's book, Coulomb and the Evolution of Physics and Engineering in Eighteenth-Century France, Princeton University Press, 1971, pp. xvii + 328.

  2. First published in ‘Notice sur le général Meusnier d' près, des notes biographiques de Monge et d'autres documents également inédits’, Revue Rétrospective, (2) 4 (1835) 82–91, which I have not seen. Republished on pp. 3–4 of Gaston Darboux, Notice Historique sur le Général Meusnier, lue dans la séance publique annuelle du 20 décembre 1909, Institut de France, Académié des Sciences, Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1909, 38 pp. + map and portrait.

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  8. For nearly all particulars of Meusnier's life I rely on the excellent article about him by Dirk J. Struik in Volume 9 (1974) of Dictionary of Scientific Biography.

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Truesdell, C. Jean-Baptiste-Marie charles meusnier de la place (1754–1793): an historical note. Meccanica 31, 607–610 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00420830

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