Pierre Ango

French Catholic priest and scientist

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Pierre Ango (1640 in Rouen – 18 October 1694 in La Flèche) was a French Catholic priest and scientist.^[1]^[2]

He was a professor at the College of La Flèche. In 1682, he published parts of Pardies' work on optics in his book Optique.^[3] 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)

Notes

^ Pierre Ango (1640-1694) Bibliothèque nationale de France
^ Agustín, Udías (2015). Jesuit Contribution to Science. New York: Springer. ISBN 978-3-319-08364-3.
^ L'Optique at Google Books