Ismael boulliau biography for kids

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Born
28 September 1605
Loudun, France
Died
25 November 1694
Paris, France
Summary
Ismael Boulliau or Bullialdus was a French clergyman and amateur mathematician who proposed an inverse square law for gravitation before Newton.

Biography

Ismael Boulliau's mother was Susanna Motet and his father was Ismael Boulliau; both were Calvinists.

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Ismael Boulliau, the father, was a notary by profession but was an amateur astronomer who made observations in Loudun. His son, the subject of this biography, described him as having [6]:-

... a very clever mind and a character suited both to seriousness and pleasantness.
Susanna and Ismael Senior had their first son on 3 August 1604.

He was called Ismael after his father but he did not live.

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They then called their second child, who was born in the following year, Ismael. He did survive and become a famous astronomer and mathematician. He is the Ismael Boulliau of this biography.

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