Bernard Forest Belidor (1693-c1761), French military and civil engineer, 1737. Artist: Unknown

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Bernard Forest Belidor (1693-c1761), French military and civil engineer, 1737. Frontispiece from his Architecture Hydraulique (Paris, 1737), the first work on engineering to apply integral calculus to practical problems.

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