Pierre Lemonnier (physicist)
Pierre Lemonnier (aka Petro Lemonnier) (28 June 1675 in Saint-Sever – 27 November 1757 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye) was a French astronomer, a professor of Physics and Philosophy at the Collège d'Harcourt (University of Paris), and a member of the French Academy of Sciences. Lemonnier published the 6-volume Latin university textbook Cursus philosophicus ad scholarum usum accommodatus (Paris, 1750/1754) which consisted of the following volumes (generally consistent with the Ratio Studiorum):
 Volume 1 - Logica
 Volume 2 - Metaphysica
 Volume 3 - Physica Generalis including mechanics and geometry
 Volume 4 - Physica Particularis (Part I) including astronomy (Ptolemaic, Copernican, Tychonic), optics, chemistry, gravity, and Newtonian versus Cartesian dynamics
 Volume 5 - Physica Particularis (Part II) including fluid mechanics, human anatomy, magnetism, and miscellaneous subjects (earthquakes, electricity, botany, metallurgy, etc. ...)
 Volume 6 - Moralis including appendices on trigonometry and sundials

He was also the father of Pierre Charles Le Monnier and Louis-Guillaume Le Monnier. See also 
 Johann Baptiste Horvath
 Andreas Jaszlinszky
 Edmond Pourchot
 Philip of the Blessed Trinity
 Charles Morton

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1675 births
1757 deaths
Members of the French Academy of Sciences
18th-century writers in Latin
18th-century French male writers
18th-century French physicists
18th-century French astronomers