Claude Mydorge

Claude Mydorge (1585 to 1647) was a French mathematician whose primary contributions were in geometry and physics. He served on a scientific committee, whose members included Pierre Hérigone and Étienne Pascal, set up to determine whether Jean-Baptiste Morin's scheme for determining longitude from the Moon's motion was practical. His writings include a 1625 work in French on the use of the particular and the universal astrolabe and the 1639 Prodromi catoptricorum et dioptricorum in Latin, a treatise on conics and on the mysteries of reflected and refracted rays. The article gives his dates only as 1585 to July 1647 and points to the MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive of the University of St Andrews for a fuller biography.