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Wikimedia needs your help in its 21-day fund drive. See our fundraising page Over US$150,000 has been donated since the drive began on 19 August. Thank you for your generosity! Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. French Literature By category Historical Periods Medieval 16th Century 17th Century 18th Century ... Literature Portal For other uses of Fontenelle, see Fontenelle (disambiguation) Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle , also referred to as Bernard le Bouyer de Fontenelle February 11 January 9 ) was a French author Fontenelle was born in Rouen Normandy . He died in Paris, having very nearly attained the age of 100 years. His mother was the sister of the great French dramatists Pierre Corneille and Thomas Corneille . He was educated at the college of the Jesuits in Rouen, where he distinguished himself. He was the son of a lawyer and as was the custom at the time he was trained in his father's profession. He gave up law after pleading one case, and spent the rest of his life as a philosopher and scientist in the Cartesian tradition.

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Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle [Categories: Members of the Académie française, French nobility, 1757 deaths, 1657 births] For other uses of Fontenelle, see (Click link for more info and facts about Fontenelle (disambiguation)) Fontenelle (disambiguation) Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle , also referred to as Bernard le Bouyer de Fontenelle (The Romance language spoken in France and in countries colonized by France) French (Writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)) author Fontenelle was born in (Click link for more info and facts about Rouen) Rouen (A former province of northwestern France on the English channel; divided into Haute-Normandie and Basse-Normandie) Normandy . He died in Paris, having very nearly attained the age of 100 years. His mother was the sister of the great French dramatists (French tragic dramatist whose plays treat grand moral themes in elegant verse (1606-1684)) Pierre Corneille and (Click link for more info and facts about Thomas Corneille) Thomas Corneille . He was educated at the college of the (A member of the Jesuit order) Jesuits in Rouen, where he distinguished himself. He was the son of a lawyer and as was the custom at the time he was trained in his father's profession. He gave up law after pleading one case, and spent the rest of his life as a philosopher and scientist in the

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49. BIBLIOGRAPHY fontenelle, bernard de (1725). Histoire de l Académie Royale des Sciences 1700 . fontenelle, bernard de (1727). Éléments de la géométrie de l infini. http://www.princeton.edu/~mike/articles/mathnat/mathnatbib.htm

BIBLIOGRAPHY Andersen, Kirsti (1985) . "Cavalieri's method of indivisibles" , Archive for History of Exact Sciences Barrow, Isaac (1670) Lectiones geometricae: In quibus (praesertim) generalia curvarum linearum symptomata declarantur . London. Bacon, Francis (1960) The New Organon. ed. Fulton H. Anderson. Indianapolis: Liberal Arts Press. Bedini, Silvio A (1991) The Pulse of Time: Galileo Galilei, The Determination of Longitude, and the Pendulum Clock . Florence: Leo S. Olschki. Bos, H.J.M. (1974) . "Differentials, Higher-Order Differentials and the Derivative in the Leibnizian Calculus", Archive for History of Exact Sciences Bos, H.J.M. (1988) . "Tractional Motion and the Legitimation of Transcendental Curves", Centaurus Boyle, Robert (1965) Robert Boyle on Natural Philosophy , ed. Marie Boas Hall. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Breger, Herbert (1990) . "Know-how in der Mathematik. Mit einer Nutzanwendung auf die unendlichkleinen Größen", in Rechnen mit dem Unendlichen: Beiträge zur Entwicklung eines kontroversen Gegenstandes . Basel: Birkhäuser, pp. 43-57.

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Visit our new gallery of Perpetual Motion Machines through the centuries Bernard Le Bovier, sieur de Fontenelle (11 Feb 1657 - 9 Jan 1757) Bernard Le Bovier, sieur de Fontenelle , French scientist and author, whose Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds (1686), was one of the first works to present science for the lay reader. "To what purpose should People become fond of the Mathematicks and Natural Philosophy? ... People very readily call Useless what they do not understand. It is a sort of Revenge..." Of the Usefulness of Mathematical Learning (1699) Bernard Le Bovier, sieur de Fontenelle

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Bernard de Fontenelle Histoire des oracles (Un fichier de 93 pages de 320 K) (Un fichier de 93 pages de 312 K) (Un fichier de 93 pages de 372 K) http://nimispauci.free.fr/Fontenelle/histoire_des_oracles.htm par Ugo Bratelli: ugo_bratelli@netcourrier.com Histoire des oracles Ugo Bratelli, Autres liens DMOZ (Open Directory Project), Fontenelle Christophe Paillard, Le fatalisme neurologique de Fontenelle Christophe Paillard, Sur Fontenelle Site Proverbes et citation, Fontenelle : une biographie. Fontenelle Fontenelle Bernard de Fontenelle : Auteur dramatique, moraliste, philosophe: biographie. Gallica (BNF), Bernard de Fontenalle, biographie University of St Andrews , Scotland, References for Bernard de Fontenelle Facphilo, Bernard de Fontenelle Page d'accueil centrale Vendredi 10 janvier 2003 Par Jean-Marie Tremblay, sociologue

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List F This page is still under construction, this work will probably never finish. Back to A-Z Fabricius, David (1564 - 1617) Fabricius, Johannes (1587 - ) Falb, R. (1838 - ) ... Fearnley, Carl Frederik (1818 - ) Fecker, Gottlieb L. ( 19th Century) Fecker, J.W. ( - 1945) Fedorov, A.P. (1872 - 1920) Fehrenbach, Ch. Ferguson, James (1710 - 1776) Ferguson, James (1797 - 1868) Fernel, Johann (1506 - 1558) Finlay Finsen, W. S. Firmicus, Julius Maternus (4. Century) Fitzeau, Armand Hippolyte Louis Flammarion, Camille (1842 - 1925) Flamsteed [Flamstead], John (1646 - 1719) Fleming, Williamina Paton Flemming, Friedrich Wilhelm (1812 - 1840) Fletcher, Isaak (1827 - 1879) Fleury, Abbon de ( - 1004) Foerster, Wilhelm (1832 - ) Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier de (1657 - 1757) Forbes Fowler, Alfred ( - 1940) Fowler, Ralph H. (1889 - 1944) Frakastor, Hieronymus (1483 - 1553) Franklin-Adams (1843 - 1912) Franz, Julius H. (1847 - 1913) Fraunhofer, Joseph von (1787 - 1826) Friedman, Herbert Frost, E.B. (1866 - 1935) Fabricius, David (1564 - 1617) D. Fabricius was born in Esens in 1564 and was a pastor. He noticed the variability of the star Mira in the constellation Cetus, the Whale. Together with his son Johannes he observed sunspots and made the first map of East Frisia. D. Fabricius died in Osteel near Aurich.

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Popularizing Science Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, from Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds (Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds). No work was more influential in popularizing the facts and the philosophy empowered by the microscope and telescope. Two English translations appeared in 1688. The selections below are from the free and stylish version by Aphra Behn, A Discovery of New Worlds Idea Antipodes Marquiese Europeans and Africans Saturn W.W. Norton and Company : Site Feedback Credits Home Top of page ... A Juggler of Worlds

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