Pierre Lemonnier (aka Petro Lemonnier) (28 June 1675 in Saint-Sever – 27 November 1757 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye) was a French astronomer, a professor of Physics and Philosophy at the Collège d'Harcourt (University of Paris), and a member of the French Academy of Sciences. Lemonnier published the 6-volume Latin university textbook Cursus philosophicus ad scholarum usum accommodatus (Paris, 1750/1754) which consisted of the following volumes (generally consistent with the Ratio Studiorum): Volume 1 - Logica Volume 2 - Metaphysica Volume 3 - Physica Generalis including mechanics and geometry Volume 4 - Physica Particularis (Part I) including astronomy (Ptolemaic, Copernican, Tychonic), optics, chemistry, gravity, and Newtonian versus Cartesian dynamics Volume 5 - Physica Particularis (Part II) including fluid mechanics, human anatomy, magnetism, and miscellaneous subjects (earthquakes, electricity, botany, metallurgy, etc. ...) Volume 6 - Moralis including appendices on trigonometry and sundials He was also the father of Pierre Charles Le Monnier and Louis-Guillaume Le Monnier. See also Johann Baptiste Horvath Andreas Jaszlinszky Edmond Pourchot Philip of the Blessed Trinity Charles Morton References 1675 births 1757 deaths Members of the French Academy of Sciences 18th-century Latin-language writers 18th-century French male writers 18th-century French physicists 18th-century French astronomers