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3 unusual facts about Pierre Bouguer


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Pierre Bouguer (1698-1758), French mathematician, geophysicist, geodesist, and astronomer; son of Jean Bouguer

José Antonio de Mendoza, 3rd Marquis of Villagarcía

Other French scientists in Peru at this time were Charles Marie de La Condamine and Pierre Bouguer.

Pierre Bouguer

His name is also recalled as the meteorological term Bouguer's halo (also known as Ulloa's halo, after Antonio de Ulloa, a Spanish member of his South American expedition) which an observer may see infrequently in fog when sun breaks through (for example, on a mountain) and looks down-sun—effectively a "Fog bow" (as opposed to a "rain-bow").



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