About Pierre Ango
Lived 1640 – 1694 (aged 54). Pierre Ango was a French mathematician, physicist, naturalist and philosopher.
Pierre Ango (20 April 164018 October 1694) was a French Catholic priest and scientist.
He was a professor at the College of La Flèche. In 1682, he published parts of Pardies' work on optics in his book Optique. In this work, Ango provided a construction for refraction which was not dissimilar that of Hooke.
Works 1682 - L'Optique divisée en trois livres (Optics divided in three books)
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French Catholic priest and scientist
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Pierre Ango was born on 20 April 1640 in Rouen.
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Pierre Ango died on 18 October 1694 in La Flèche.
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Pierre Ango was a mathematician, physicist, naturalist and philosopher.
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