CAMUS

camus, charles etienne louis (1699-1768), french mathematician and mechanician, was born at crecy-en-brie, near meaux, on the 25th of august 1699. he studied mathematics, civil and military architecture, and astronomy, and became associate of the academie des sciences, professor of geometry, secretary to the academy of architecture and fellow of the royal society of london. in 1736 he accompanied pierre louis maupertuis and alexis claude clairaut in the expedition to lapland for the measurement of a degree of the meridian. he died on the 2nd of february 1768. he was the author of a _cours de mathematiques_ (paris, 1766), and a number of essays on mathematical and mechanical subjects (see poggendorff, _biog.-lit. handworterbuch_).