Bibliothèque nationale de France, ms. fr. 12381, Joseph Sauveur's "Éléments de fortification" written for the Duke of Chartres Bibliothèque nationale de France, ms. fr. 14737, "Éléments de géométrie par Mr. Sauveur" (used to teach the princes) Archives of the Académie des Sciences, Paris, Procès verbaux, vol. 20, February through April 1701 (his work on acoustics with musician Étienne Loulié) Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences (Paris, 1701), pp. 299–366 (his work on acoustics with musician Étienne Loulié) Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences (Paris, 1704), for 1701, pp. 123–139, 298–318 (his work on acoustics with musician Étienne Loulié) Fontenelle, "Éloge de Monsieur Sauveur", Éloges des Académiciens de l'Académie Royale des Sciences morts depuis l'an 1699 (Paris, 1766), pp. 424–438 Joseph Sauveur: Collected Writings on Musical Acoustics (Paris 1700–1713); edited by Rudolf Rasch (The Diapason Press) French Wikipedia Site; Joseph Sauveur Logarithmic Interval Measures by Manuel Op de Coul Patricia M. Ranum, "Étienne Loulié (1654–1702), Musicien de Mademoiselle de Guise, Pédagogue et Théoricien", Recherches, 25 (1987), pp. 27–75 (especially, pp. 67–75, on the education of the Duke of Chartres); and 26 (1988–1990), pp. 5–49 (especially pp. 5–26, on his collaboration with Étienne Loulié on acoustics) Patricia M. Ranum, "Le Musicien Tailleur: Étienne Loulié et la musique des Anciens", in Louise Godard de Donville, ed., D'un Siècle à l'autre: Anciens et modernes (Marseille, 1987), pp. 239–59 (on the musicians' dispute with Sauveur) Adam Fix, “A Science Superior to Music: Joseph Sauveur and the Estrangement between Music and Acoustics,” Physics in Perspective 17, no. 3 (2015): 173–97. External links Acousticians 17th-century French people 18th-century French people 17th-century French mathematicians 18th-century French mathematicians French physicists Members of the French Academy of Sciences 1653 births 1716 deaths French music theorists French male non-fiction writers 18th-century French male writers 17th-century French male writers