{"id":277,"date":"2024-10-29T11:23:01","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T11:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetechnicalcorps.com\/?page_id=277"},"modified":"2024-10-29T11:23:40","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T11:23:40","slug":"puissant","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thetechnicalcorps.com\/?page_id=277","title":{"rendered":"Puissant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Louis Puissant (La Gastellerie, 22 September 1769 \u2013 Paris, 10 January 1843)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Puissant was a geographical engineer at the War Depot from 1790 to 1797, and then during the Consulate. He was elected to the Academy of Sciences in 1828. He taught first at the Fontainebleau school, then at the technical school for geographical engineers from 1809 to 1830. Among the manuals adopted were: Year X (1802) \u2013 Year XI (1803). <em>M\u00e9morial topographique et militaire, r\u00e9dig\u00e9 au D\u00e9p\u00f4t g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de la guerre<\/em>. Paris, Imprimerie de la R\u00e9publique, 6 vols., Puissant, Louis. Year XIV [1805]. Trait\u00e9 de g\u00e9od\u00e9sie. Paris: Courcier (2nd edition of 1819) and Id. 1807. T<em>rait\u00e9 de topographie, d\u2019arpentage et de nivellement<\/em>. Paris: Courcier (2nd edition of 1820). (Cf. AN LH\/\/2239\/64, Bret, Patrice. 1991. Le D\u00e9p\u00f4t g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de la Guerre et la formation scientifique des ing\u00e9nieurs-g\u00e9ographes militaires en France (1789\u20131830). <em>Annals of Science<\/em>, 48: 114\u2013157).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louis Puissant (La Gastellerie, 22 September 1769 \u2013 Paris, 10 January 1843) Puissant was a geographical engineer at the War Depot from 1790 to 1797, and then during the Consulate. He was elected to the Academy of Sciences in 1828. He taught first at the Fontainebleau school, then at the technical school for geographical engineers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":53,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-277","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetechnicalcorps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetechnicalcorps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetechnicalcorps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetechnicalcorps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetechnicalcorps.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thetechnicalcorps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278,"href":"https:\/\/thetechnicalcorps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/277\/revisions\/278"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetechnicalcorps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetechnicalcorps.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}