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Amédéé Guillemin was born on July, 5th 1826 in Pierre-de-Bresse and died in this same town in 1893. He was a scientific writer and a French journalist.

He started his studies at Beaune college and finished it in Paris, where he taught mathematics for some time as a liberal professor in addition to writing in the liberal pages opposed to the Empire.

In 1860, he settled at Chambéry where ha became Editing secretary of the political journal La Savoie. After the annexation, he returned back to Paris and he became responsible of the scientific chronicle l’Avenir national (litt. National Future).

Soon, he started publishing his scientific works of physics and astronomy which gained wide success. His magnificently edited book, Le Ciel (litt. The Sky) was translated into many languages. However, his main work remains Le Monde Physique (litt. The Physical World) which is composed of five big size volumes. He published also a whole series of small books of astronomy and physics compiled under the title Petite encyclopédie populaire (litt. Small popular encyclopaedia), a solid, agreeable and clever collection of sciences and their applications which appeared at Hachette:

 La Lune (litt. The Moon);

 Le Soleil (litt. The Sun) ;

 La Lumière et les Couleurs (litt. Light and Colours);

 Le Son (litt. The Sound);

 Les Etoiles, notions d’astronomie sidérale (litt. The Stars, notions of sidereal astronomy) ;

 Les Nébuleuses (litt. Nebulas);

 Le Feu souterrain. Volcans et tremblements de terre (litt. Underground Fire. Volcanoes and earth quakes), illustrated in 55 labels;

 La Télégraphie et le téléphone (litt. Telegraphy and Telephone) illustrated in 101 labels ;

 Le Monde Physique (litt. The Physical World) 5 vol. illustrated by 31 colourful boards, 80 black and white boards and 2012 labels ;

 Éléments de cosmographie (litt. Cosmography Elements);

 La Terre et le ciel (1888) (litt. Earth and Sky)

 La Vapeur (litt. Vapour) (Bibliothèque des merveilles Collection)

 Les Chemins de fer (litt. Railways) (Bibliothèque des merveilles Collection)

In addition to that, he published at Lechevalier: L’Instruction républiquaine (litt. Republican Instruction). He collaborated in a great number of literary, scientific and political journals and reviews, namely in La Nature (litt. Nature), la République Française (litt. The French Republic) and in la Revue Philosophique et Religieuse (litt. Philosophical and Religious Review). He was the one who drafted that part on astronomy in the second edition of Dictionnaire d'Histoire naturelle of Dorbigny (litt. Dictionary of Natural History).

He deals also with politics and he remains faithful to his liberal convictions.

References

La Nature, N°1024 du 14 Janvier 1893 ;

Angelo de Gubernatis : Dictionnaire international des écrivains du jour (1891).