Jean Leurechon, born around 1591 at Bar-le-Duc and dead on 17 January 1670, was a French Jesuit priest, astronomer and mathematician, known for inventing the pigeonhole principle and naming the thermometer. His father, also named Jean Leurechon, was a physician to the Duke of Lorraine who sent him to the Jesuit university at Pont-à-Mousson but then brought him home because he wanted him to become a physician; in 1609 Leurechon ran away to rejoin the Jesuits, and after a month his parents let him go. He taught mathematics at Pont-à-Mousson from 1614 to 1629 and in 1631 became rector of the Collège Gilles de Trèves, a Jesuit school in Bar-le-Duc, where he also heard the confessions of Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine. From 1649 to 1655 he worked in an army chapel in Brussels, and he died in Pont-à-Mousson.
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Leurechon (c. 1591 – 17 January 1670) was a French Jesuit priest, astronomer, and mathematician, known for inventing the pigeonhole principle and naming the thermometer. == Life == Leurechon was born in Bar-le-Duc where his father, also named Jean
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Leurechon (c. 1591-17 January 1670) was a French Jesuit priest, astronomer, and mathematician, known for inventing the pigeonhole principle and naming the thermometer. == Life == Leurechon was born in Bar-le-Duc where his father, also named Jean
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Leurechon (c. 1591-17 January 1670) was a French Jesuit priest, astronomer, and mathematician, known for inventing the pigeonhole principle and naming the thermometer. == Life == Leurechon was born in Bar-le-Duc where his father, also named Jean
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Leurechon (c. 1591-17 January 1670) was a French Jesuit priest, astronomer, and mathematician, known for inventing the pigeonhole principle and naming the thermometer. == Life == Leurechon was born in Bar-le-Duc where his father, also named Jean
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