Pierre Coste

{{Short description|French theologian, translator and writer (1668–1747)}}

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Pierre Coste ({{Langx|la|Petrus Coste}}; 27 October 1668 – 24 January 1747) was a French theologian, translator and writer.{{cite DNB|wstitle=Coste, Pierre|last=Marzials|first=Frank Thomas|volume=12}}{{ODNBweb|id=6377|title=Coste, Pierre}}

Born in Uzès, France to Protestant parents, he moved to England, via Switzerland and Holland, after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. There he translated John Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, and the second English edition of Newton's Opticks,I. Newton (tr. P. Coste), [https://books.google.com/books?id=mjYVAAAAQAAJ Traité d'optique sur les reflexions, refractions, inflexions, et les couleurs, de la lumiere], seconde edition françoise, Paris: Montalant, 1722.J.-F. Baillon, "Two Eighteenth-Century Translators of Newton’s Opticks: Pierre Coste and Jean-Paul Marat", in S.D. Snobelen (ed.), [https://www.qmul.ac.uk/sed/religionandliterature/media/centre-for-religion-and-literature-in-english/E&D-25-(2009).pdf Isaac Newton in the Eighteenth Century] (Enlightenment and Dissent, No. 25), London: Queen Mary Centre for Religion and Literature in English, 2009, pp. 1–28. and acted as tutor to the sons of several families. He moved back to Paris c.1735 to be married, but returned to England after the death of his wife.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1742.{{cite web|url=https://collections.royalsociety.org/DServe.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28%28text%29%3D%27coste%27%29|title=Fellow Details|publisher= Royal Society|accessdate=19 January 2017}}

He died in Paris in 1747.