Académie Royale d'Architecture. In 1673, Blondel was appointed professor of mathematics to the Grand Dauphin; if the royal pupil was of mediocre talent, the project resulted in Blondel's Cours de Mathématiques (1683). From 1670 until his death in 1686, Blondel was wholly occupied in professional matters and teaching. He collaborated on the dictionaries of Antoine Furetière, of Adrien Auzout for mathematics and Giovanni Alfonso Borelli for astronomy. References Notes Sources Gerbino, Anthony (2010). François Blondel: Architecture, Erudition, and the Scientific Revolution. London and New York: Routledge. . Herrmann, Wolfgang (1982). "Blondel, François", vol. 1, pp. 216–219, in Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architects, 4 volumes, edited by Adolf K. Placzek. New York: The Free Press. . Tadgell, Christopher (1996). "Blondel, (Nicolas-)François", vol. 4, pp. 165–166, in The Dictionary of Art, 34 volumes, edited by Jane Turner, reprinted with minor corrections in 1998. New York: Grove. . Vuillemin, Jean-Claude (2008). “Blondel, Nicolas-François”, vol. 1, pp. 157–161, in The Dictionary of Seventeenth-Century French Philosophers, 2 volumes, edited by Luc Foisneau. London and New York: Thoemmes Continuum. . External links Cours d'architecture, Parts 1 (1675), 2 & 3 (1683), 4, 5 & 6 (1683); from the Getty Research Institute, bound as one volume, digitized by the Internet Archive Cours d'architecture, second edition (1698), Parts 1, 2 & 3, 4, 5, & 6 at Heidelberg University Library 1618 births 1686 deaths 17th-century French architects 17th-century French mathematicians French Baroque architects Members of the French Academy of Sciences Members of the Académie royale d'architecture French military engineers