Guillemin, AMADÉE VICTOR

Guillemin, AMADÉE VICTOR, a popular writer on science, was born in Saône-et-Loire, 5th July 1826, and became a professor of Mathematics at Paris. Of his numerous illustrated works many have been translated into English, including The Heavens (1866), The Sun (1869), The World of Comets (1876), and The Forces of Nature (1872) and Application of Physical Forces (1877), the last two by Mrs Norman Lockyer. Both in France and England Guillemin's works have gone through many editions. He died 2d January 1893.