Pierre Lemonnier (physicist)

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Pierre Lemonnier ({{IPA|fr|pjɛʁ ləmɔnje}}; aka Petro Lemonnier; 28 June 1675 in Saint-Sever – 27 November 1757 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye) was a French astronomer, a professor of Physics and Philosophy at the Collège d'Harcourt (University of Paris), and a member of the French Academy of Sciences.{{Cite web|url = http://www.cosmovisions.com/Lemonnier.htm|title = Pierre Lemonnier.|website = www.cosmovisions.com|access-date = 2016-03-24}}Thomas, Joseph. Universal Pronouncing Dictionary of Biography and Mythology. Lippincott, 1901.{{Cite web |url=http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/%C3%89loge_historique_de_Lemmonier |title=Éloge historique de Lemmonier - Wikisource |access-date=2010-11-25 |archive-date=2012-03-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120305195718/http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/%C3%89loge_historique_de_Lemmonier |url-status=dead }}

Lemonnier published the 6-volume Latin university textbook Cursus philosophicus ad scholarum usum accommodatus (Paris, 1750/1754) which consisted of the following volumes (generally consistent with the Ratio Studiorum):

• Volume 1 - Logica{{cite book|author=Pierre Lemonnier|title=Cursus philosophicus: ad scholarum usum accommodatus|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DkkgYUvY_XYC&pg=PT220|year=1754|publisher=apud Jacobum Rollin|pages=220–}}
• Volume 2 - Metaphysica{{cite book|author=Pierre Lemonnier|title=Cursus philosophicus: ad scholarum usum accommodatus|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_DkkgYUvY_XYC|year=1754|publisher=Apud Jacobum Rollin|pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_DkkgYUvY_XYC/page/n259 240]–}}
• Volume 3 - Physica Generalis{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0eUTAAAAQAAJ|title=Cursus philosophicus ad scholarum usum accomodatus|last=Lemonnier|first=Pierre|date=1750-01-01|language=la}} including mechanics and geometry
• Volume 4 - Physica Particularis (Part I){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cHMlxy7SWy4C|title=Cursus philosophicus: ad scholarum usum accommodatus|last=Lemonnier|first=Pierre|date=1750-01-01|publisher=apud Ludovicum Genneau|language=la}} including astronomy (Ptolemaic, Copernican, Tychonic), optics, chemistry, gravity, and Newtonian versus Cartesian dynamics
• Volume 5 - Physica Particularis (Part II){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nQsUBxscSl4C|title=Cursus philosophicus: ad scholarum usum accommodatus|last=Lemonnier|first=Pierre|date=1750-01-01|publisher=apud Ludovicum Genneau|language=la}} including fluid mechanics, human anatomy, magnetism, and miscellaneous subjects (earthquakes, electricity, botany, metallurgy, etc. ...)
• Volume 6 - Moralis{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_MeYTAAAAQAAJ|title=Cursus philosophicus ad scholarum usum accomodatus|last=Lemonnier|first=Pierre|date=1750-01-01|language=la}} including appendices on trigonometry and sundials

He was also the father of Pierre Charles Le Monnier and Louis-Guillaume Le Monnier.