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In 1760 he became perpetual secretary of the academy of architecture. He was also employed in a variety of public works, and in 1765 was chosen a fellow of the
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in Paris. In 1730 he was appointed professor of architecture and, in 1733, associate of the
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Opérations faites pour mesurer le degré de méridienne entre Paris et Amiens
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Most widely held works by Charles-Étienne-Louis Camus
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mathematician
mechanician
Crécy-en-Brie
Meaux
architecture
astronomy
Collège de Navarre
Académie des Sciences
geometry
Royal Society of London
Pierre Louis Maupertuis
Alexis Clairaut
expedition
Lapland
meridian arc

Royal Society of London
Robertson, Edmund F.
"Charles Étienne Louis Camus"
MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive
University of St Andrews
The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers
Springer Publishing
ISBN
978-0-387-31022-0
public domain
Chisholm, Hugh
Camus, Charles Étienne Louis
Encyclopædia Britannica
Poggendorff

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