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45. Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle -- Facts, Info, And Encyclopedia Article bernard le Bovier de fontenelle, also referred to as bernard le Bouyer defontenelle (February 11, 1657–January 9, 1757) was a (The Romance language spoken http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/b/be/bernard_le_bovier_de_fontenel

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

46. 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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Extraterrestrials ? : Lucretius, Bruno, Fontenelle, Huygens and Voltaire As long as human beings regard the Earth as the centre of the universe, occupying a special status amongst all the celestial bodies, there is no need to even wonder whether life can exist elsewhere. To do so would make us realize that we are not as important in the cosmos as we thought and, furthermore, that we live in an uncaring, perhaps even hostile, universe. In 70 B.C., the poet Titus Lucretius Carus (99-55 B.C.) wrote his famous poem De Rerum Natura De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of the Universe) c.70 B.C.) These ideas lay dormant for well over a thousand years, until the time of the Copernican revolution, when they were resurrected by the Italian scholar Giordano Bruno. Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), the Polish astronomer, had earlier caused an uproar by reviving the heliocentric theory, first expounded by Aristarchus of Samos in the 3rd century B.C., in which the Earth revolves around the sun rather than vice-versa. The theory was published in 1543, when Copernicus was on his deathbed, under the title De Revolutionibus Orbium Caelestium (Ref 2: Copernicus, Nicolaus

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