Louis Bertrand Castel

Louis Bertrand Castel (15 November 1688 – 9 January 1757) is a French mathematician born in Montpellier, and enters the order of the Jesuits in 1703.

Having studied literature, he afterwards devotes himself entirely to mathematics and natural philosophy.

He writes several scientific works, that which attract most attention at the time being his Optique des couleurs (1740), or treatise on the melody of colors.

He also writes Traité de physique sur la pesanteur universelle des corps (1724), Mathématique universelle (1728), and a critical account of the system of Sir Isaac Newton in 1743.

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