Paul de Clermont was a 17th-century French
mathematician
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and
military engineer
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.
His book about practical
geometry
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, ''La geometrie pratique de l'ingenieur, ou L'art de mesurer'' (1693), was a reference work reprinted for 60 years.
Clermont served in the French Army as
artillery
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commissary
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in
Strasbourg
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17th-century births
18th-century deaths
17th-century French mathematicians
French military engineers