BÉRAUD, LAURENT. - French Jesuit, b. at Lyon on 5 March 1702, entered the novitiate in 1717, distinguished himself in the teaching of mathematics, especially at Lyon, where he was also director of the observatory of the Collège de la Trinité and curator of its collections of medals. Having left France in 1762, he returned there after the suppression of the Society and d. at Lyon on 28 June 1777.
He published in various collections (Mémoires de Trévoux, etc.) good astronomical observations or dissertations; another on the cause of electricity was printed by the Imperial Academy of St. Petersburg in 1755 and reprinted in Italy two years later; several others remained unpublished.
Lamalle, Edmondo. “Béraud, laurent.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, col. 1369. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/beraud-laurent.
MLA
Lamalle, Edmondo. “Béraud, laurent.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, col. 1369. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/beraud-laurent.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec2_beraud_laurent,
author = {Lamalle, Edmondo},
title = {Béraud, laurent},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {II},
pages = {1369},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1949},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/beraud-laurent}
}
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