Claude Mydorge

Claude Mydorge, who lived from 1585 to July 1647, was a French mathematician whose primary contributions were in geometry and physics. He served on a scientific committee, whose members included Pierre Hérigone and Étienne Pascal, set up to judge whether Jean-Baptiste Morin's scheme for determining longitude from the Moon's motion was practical. His works include the Usage de l'un et l'autre astrolabe particulier et universel, published in French in 1625 by Jean Moreau, and the Latin Prodromi catoptricorum et dioptricorum sive Conicorum operis ad abdita radii reflexi et refracti mysteria praevij et facem praeferentis of 1639, printed by Isaac Dedin.