In the same year, he also began working at the hospital of Saint Germain en Laye as a physician. In 1739 he accompanied the expedition of César-François Cassini de Thury and Nicolas Louis de Lacaille to extend the Meridian of Paris and documented mines and the geology and botany along the route. Louis-Guillaume Le Monnier worked in physics, geology, medicine, and botany. Louis-Guillaume's older brother was the astronomer Pierre Charles Le Monnier. He was born near Vire as the son of Pierre Le Monnier (1675–1757), who was a scientist himself and a member of the French Academy of Sciences. Louis-Guillaume Le Monnier (sometimes written as Lemonnier) (27 June 1717 – 7 September 1799) was a French natural scientist and contributor to the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers.
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