Antoine Deidier

Mesure des surfaces et des solides, 1740 (from BEIC digital library.)

Antoine Deidier (1670^[1] – 1746) was a French abbot, mathematician and physician.^[2][3][4]

He was born 23 November 1670,^[1] the son of a Montpellier surgeon. He was educated in the town, obtaining his medical doctorate in 1691, before becoming Professor of Chemistry there from 1697 to 1732.

In 1720 he provided at the King's request medical assistance at a plague outbreak in Marseilles, and was afterwards awarded the title of ""Conseiller-médecin du Roi" and made a Chevalier of the Order of St Michael. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1723.^[5]

He was physician to the galleys in Marseilles from 1732 to his death.^[5]

Works

• Deidier (1740). Mesure des surfaces et des solides, par l'arithmetique des infinis et les centres de gravité. A Paris: Charles Antoine Jombert, Jacques Chardon. 
• Deidier (1741). Mechanique génerale. A Paris: chez Charles Antoine Jombert, rue sJacques, libraire du roy pour l'artillerie & le Génie, à l'image Nôtre-Dame. 
• Deidier (1742). Parfait ingenieur françois, ou La fortification offensive et défensive. A Paris: chez Charles-Antoine Jombert, libraire du Roy pour l'artillerie & le Génie, vis-à-vis la rue des Marthurins, à l'image Notre-Dame. 
• Deidier (1745). Elemens généraux des principales parties des mathématiques, necessaires a l'artillerie et au génie. 1. A Paris: Charles Antoine Jombert. 
• Deidier (1745). Elemens généraux des principales parties des mathématiques, necessaires a l'artillerie et au génie. 2. A Paris: Charles Antoine Jombert. 

Notes

1. 1 2 http://www.idref.fr/058610510
2. ↑ Deidier <M., Antoine>
3. ↑ Deidier, Antoine
4. ↑ Deidier
5. 1 2 "Fellows details". Royal Society. Retrieved 13 June 2016. 

External links

• Deidier and the 1720 plague outbreak