Joseph-Aignan Sigaud de Lafond
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Bust of Sigaud de Lafond, in Bourges
Joseph-Aignan Sigaud de Lafond (5 January 1730, Bourges – 26 January 1810, Bourges) was a French obstetrician.
While pursuing a medical career as an obstetrician, he was one of the most faithful attendants of the lectures by the abbot Jean-Antoine Nollet (1700–1770), whom he succeeded, in 1760, in the chair of experimental physics at the Collège Louis le Grand in Paris. In 1795, he became a professor of physics and chemistry at the École Centrale. His treatise Description et usage d'un cabinet de physique (Paris, 1775) is a compendium of the experimental physics of his time.[1][2] He was a student of Jean Antoine Nollet.[3]
References[]
- ^ [1], http://catalogue.museogalileo.it/biography/JosephAignanSigaudDeFond.html.
- ^ Pyenson 2002 p119
- ^ Pyenson 2002 pxii
- Pyenson, Lewis, and Jean-François Gauvin. The art of teaching physics: the eighteenth-century demonstration apparatus of Jean Antoine Nollet. Les éditions du Septentrion, 2002.
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Categories:
- 1730 births
- 1810 deaths
- French scientific instrument makers
- French obstetricians
- People from Bourges