Pierre Forcadel

See also: Forcadel

Pierre Forcadel , born with Béziers, French mathematician of the 16th century

It obtained in 1560 by the protection of Ramus a pulpit of mathematics to the Collège de France, and died towards 1576.

One owes him of the French translations:

of the Geometry of Euclide , 1564;
of the Books of Proclus on the movement , 1565;
of the Treated weights of Archimedes , 1565, etc

His/her brother is Etienne Forcadel.

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