Jean-Victor Poncelet (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ viktɔʁ pɔ̃slɛ]; 1 July 1788 – 22 December 1867) was a French engineer and mathematician who served most...

Gabon Poncelet (crater), the remains of a lunar impact crater near the northern limb of the Moon Christian Poncelet (1928–2020), French politician Jean-Victor...

cheval-vapeur (ch, metric horsepower). The unit was named after Jean-Victor Poncelet. One poncelet is defined as the power required to raise a hundred-kilogram...

The Poncelet wheel is a type of waterwheel invented by Jean-Victor Poncelet while working at the École d'Application in Metz. It roughly doubled the efficiency...

two conics. It is named after French engineer and mathematician Jean-Victor Poncelet, who wrote about it in 1822; however, the triangular case was discovered...

straightedge and compass could construct. This groundwork was provided by Jean Victor Poncelet in 1822, having been motivated by Mohr's work on the Mohr-Mascheroni...

continuity concerning intersection numbers in geometry was promoted by Jean-Victor Poncelet in his "Traité des propriétés projectives des figures". Leibniz expressed...

these general theorems. During the early 19th century the work of Jean-Victor Poncelet, Lazare Carnot and others established projective geometry as an independent...

"complete" the Euclidean plane by adding points at infinity, following Jean-Victor Poncelet. This results in a projective plane. Desargues's theorem is true...

the turbine runner, causing it to spin. Another French engineer, Jean-Victor Poncelet, designed an inward-flow turbine in about 1820 that used the same...

Poncelet Prize (French: Prix Poncelet) is awarded by the French Academy of Sciences. The prize was established in 1868 by the widow of General Jean-Victor...

Zürich, holding the post until his death. Inspired by the work of Jean-Victor Poncelet, Culmann was a pioneer of graphical methods in engineering ("graphic...

for poles of concurrent lines are not collinear points." It was Jean-Victor Poncelet (1788–1867), a French engineer and mathematician, who introduced...

Ferdinando Paer, Italian composer and conductor (d. 1839) 1788 – Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician and engineer (d. 1867) 1804 – Charles Gordon...

Maillet (1656–1738) Charles Messier (1730–1817) Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier (1757–1785) Jean-Victor Poncelet (1788–1867) Charles Hermite (1822–1901) Edmond...

F, G, H, I.) (At a slightly earlier date, Charles Brianchon and Jean-Victor Poncelet had stated and proven the same theorem.) But soon after Feuerbach...

astronomer NW02 TRESCA Henri Tresca engineer and mechanic NW03 PONCELET Jean-Victor Poncelet geometer NW04 BRESSE Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse civil engineer...

physicist Natalia Pogonina, chess player, women Grandmaster (WGM) Jean-Victor Poncelet, French engineer and mathematician (POW) Alexander Radishchev, writer...

Egregium Louis Poinsot (1777–1859) Siméon Denis Poisson (1781–1840) Jean-Victor Poncelet (1788–1867) – projective geometry Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789–1857)...

universal joint. By 1845, the French engineer and mathematician Jean-Victor Poncelet had analyzed the movement of the universal joint using spherical...

Russian abacus was brought to France around 1820 by mathematician Jean-Victor Poncelet, who had served in Napoleon's army and had been a prisoner of war...

Unknown Soldier in Warsaw, with the inscription SMOLENSK 17 VIII 1812. Jean-Victor Poncelet Jakob Walter Bodart 1908, p. 436. Clodfelter 2017, p. 164. Chandler...

circumcircle. This is a special case of Poncelet's porism, which was proved by the French mathematician Jean-Victor Poncelet (1788–1867). Examples of bicentric...

Mexican general and politician. President (1853) (b. 1802) 1867 – Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician and engineer (b. 1788) 1870 – Gustavo Adolfo...

equivalent to a compass. Motivated by Mascheroni's result, in 1822 Jean Victor Poncelet conjectured a variation on the same theme. His work paved the way...

was largely the result of the work of Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis and Jean-Victor Poncelet over the period 1819–1839, although the present-day definition can...

Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis and French Professor of Applied Mechanics Jean-Victor Poncelet. Both scientists were pursuing a view of mechanics suitable for studying...

machine" (masticator) for recycling rubber scraps. French engineer Jean-Victor Poncelet develops an inward-flow water turbine. Copley Medal – Hans Christian...

overtones concerned Jean-Marie Constant Duhamel and a claim on inelastic shocks. Cauchy was later shown, by Jean-Victor Poncelet, to be wrong. List of...

is found at Hacienda Buena Vista in Ponce, Puerto Rico. In 1820, Jean-Victor Poncelet developed an inward-flow turbine. In 1826, Benoît Fourneyron developed...