Charles Étienne Louis Camus

Charles Étienne Louis Camus (25 August 1699 – 2 February 1768), was a French mathematician and mechanician who was born at Crécy-en-Brie, near Meaux.

He studied mathematics, civil and military architecture, and astronomy after leaving Collège de Navarre in Paris.

In 1727 he presented a memoir to the academy on masting ships, in consequence of which he was named the same year joint mechanician to that body.

In 1736 he accompanied Pierre Louis Maupertuis and Alexis Clairaut in the expedition to Lapland for the measurement of a degree of meridian arc.

He was the author of a Cours de mathématiques (Paris, 1766), and a number of essays on mathematical and mechanical subjects.