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Clermont was a 17th-century French La France littéraire ou Dictionnaire bibliographique des savants, historiens et gens de lettres de la France, ainsi que des littérateurs étrangers qui ont écrit en français
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Clermont was a 17th-century French mathematician
A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems.
Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change.
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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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