Charles-Louis Loys de Cheseaux

Charles-Louis Loys de Cheseaux (1730 – 1789) was a Swiss historian.[1]

Charles-Louis Loys de Cheseaux
Born22 March 1730 
Lausanne 
Died29 August 1789  (aged 59)
Lausanne 
FamilyJean-Philippe Loys de Cheseaux 
First page of the Abrégé chronologique pour servir a l'histoire de la physique jusqu'a nos jours, 1786

Life

Born in Lausanne, he was a member of Bern's economic society.[2]

Among his works is a history of physics in two volumes. Some of his works were translated in various languages in Europe.[2][3]

Works
  • Discours philosophique sur la physique et l'histoire naturelle (in French). Lausanne: Antoine Chapuis. 1762.
  • Discorso filosofico sulla fisica e storia naturale (in Italian). Tübingen: Stamperia Reissiana. 1777.
  • Abrégé chronologique pour servir a l'histoire de la physique jusqu'a nos jours (in French). Vol. 1. Strasbourg: P. J. Dannbach. 1786.
  • Abrégé chronologique pour servir a l'histoire de la physique jusqu'a nos jours (in French). Vol. 2. Strasbourg: P. J. Dannbach. 1787.
  • Abrégé chronologique pour servir a l'histoire de la physique jusqu'a nos jours (in French). Vol. 3. Strasbourg: P. J. Dannbach. 1789.
  • Abrégé chronologique pour servir a l'histoire de la physique jusqu'a nos jours (in French). Vol. 4. Strasbourg: P. J. Dannbach. 1789.
  • Chronologische Geschichte der Naturlehre (in German). Leipzig. 1798.

References
  1. Charles-Louis Loys de Cheseaux in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.
  2. Charles de Loys de Cheseaux (1777). Discorso filosofico sulla fisica e storia naturale (in Italian). Tübingen: Stamperia Reissiana.
  3. Charles de Loys (1798). Chronologische Geschichte der Naturlehre (in German). Leipzig.

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