Salomon de Caus

Salomon de Caus (also Mondecaus, de Caulx, de Caux, de Cauls; * 1576 probably in Dieppe, † June 6, 1626 in Paris) was a French physicist and engineer. He is (incorrectly) as the inventor of the steam engine.

Caus was born into a Protestant family and therefore had to leave his country in 1612. He lived in England, where he had previously received his education.

Between 1614 and 1620 he was a builder Elector Frederick of the Palatinate in Heidelberg. Here he built a part of the Heidelberg Castle and created the surrounding parks ( " Hortus Palatinus "). Furthermore, some garden plants originate in England, for example, in Greenwich Park (now the construction of the Maritime Museum destroyed), Wilton House, Hatfield House and Somerset House (the latter also destroyed by an erected by William Chambers at this point building), as well as some work in Richmond Park, from him.

Later Caus returned to France. He was one of the greatest physicists of his time and is due to the early use of steam power and its description in the factory Les Raisons des forces mouvantes avec diverses machines ( German From violent movements, description of several both useful than cunning machines 1615) as one of the co - inventors the steam engine.

His writings, however, remained long lost and only Arago drew again attention to the benefits de Caus '. A built according to his plans Musikmaschine heard in Michael Stone Monastery.

Salomon de Caus died on June 6, 1626 in Paris.

Works

• La perspective avec la raison des ombres et miroirs. London 1612
• Institution harmonique. Frankfurt 1615
• Les Raisons des forces mouvantes avec diverses machines. Frankfurt 1615
• From Violent movements. Description of several so wol useful alls funny Machiner. Frankfurt aM, Abraham Pacquart, 1615 [ Reprint Hannover, Vincentz, 1977 ].
• Hortus palatine. Frankfurt am Main, 1620 online edition of the Heidelberg University Library
• La pratique et la démonstration of horloges solaires. Paris 1624