Gabriel Mouton, French mathematician and theologian (born 1618)

Gabriel Mouton

French abbot and scientist (1618–1694)

Gabriel Mouton was a French abbot and scientist. He was a doctor of theology from Lyon, but was also interested in mathematics and astronomy. His 1670 book, the Observationes diametrorum solis et lunae apparentium, proposed a natural standard of length based on the circumference…