Beaune, FLORIMOND DE, a mathematician and friend of Descartes, born in 1601 at Blois, in France, served as a soldier, and died at his native place in 1652. His labours and discoveries contributed greatly to the improvement of the modern analytical geometry first introduced by Descartes. He is well known through 'Beaune's Problem,' solved with the help of the integral calculus by Jean Bernoulli in 1693, which turns on the determination of the nature of a curved line from a property of its tangent.
Beaune, FLORIMOND DE
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 4
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