François Joseph des Camus (14 September 1672 – 1732), a

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mechanic, was born near

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, France. After studying for the church, he devoted himself to mechanical inventions, a number of which he described in his ''Traité des forces mouvantes pour la pratique des arts et métiers'',

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, 1722. He died in

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in 1732.

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* 18th-century French inventors Members of the French Academy of Sciences 1672 births 1732 deaths {{france-engineer-stub