1. Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle. Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle (February11, 1657 January 9, 1757) was a French author. Fontenelle http://www.fact-index.com/b/be/bernard_le_bovier_de_fontenelle.html

Main Page See live article Alphabetical index Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Bernard le Bovier 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 father was an advocate settled in Rouen, his mother a sister of the two Corneille He was educated at the college of the Jesuits in his native city, and distinguished himself by the extraordinary precocity and versatility of his talents. His teachers, who readily appreciated these, were anxious for him to join their order, but his father had designed him for the bar, and an advocate accordingly he became; but, having lost the first case which was entrusted to him, he soon abandoned law and gave himself wholly to literary pursuits. His attention was first directed to poetry; and more than once he competed for prizes of the Académie française , but never with success. He visited Paris from time to time and established intimate relations with the abbé de Saint-Pierre, the abbé Vertot and the mathematician Pierre Varignon. He witnessed, in , the total failure of his tragedy Aspar Fontenelle afterwards acknowledged the justice of the public verdict by burning his unfortunate drama. His

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Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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 father was an advocate settled in Rouen, his mother a sister of the two Corneille He was educated at the college of the Jesuits in his native city, and distinguished himself by the extraordinary precocity and versatility of his talents. His teachers, who readily appreciated these, were anxious for him to join their order, but his father had designed him for the bar, and an advocate accordingly he became; but, having lost the first case which was entrusted to him, he soon abandoned law and gave himself wholly to literary pursuits. His attention was first directed to poetry; and more than once he competed for prizes of the Académie française , but never with success. He visited Paris from time to time and established intimate relations with the abbé de Saint-Pierre, the abbé Vertot and the mathematician Pierre Varignon . He witnessed, in

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6. Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier De. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001. fontenelle, bernard le Bovier de See The Achievement of bernard le Bovier de fontenelle ( selected works, tr http://www.bartleby.com/65/fo/Fontenel.html

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8. Fontenelle, Bernard De (1657-1757) -- From Eric Weisstein's World Of Scientific Scholars. Nationality. French. fontenelle, bernard de (16571757) French science writer who became secretary of the French Academy of Sciences in 1699. He was an influential popularizer of Cartesianism. ©. Eric W. Weisstein http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Fontenelle.html

Branch of Science Scholars Nationality French Fontenelle, Bernard de (1657-1757) French science writer who became secretary of the French Academy of Sciences in 1699. He was an influential popularizer of Cartesianism.

9. Fontenelle bernard le Bouyer de fontenelle. bernard de fontenelle was educated in a JesuitCollege in Rouen and became friends with Varignon and de l Hôpital. http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Fontenelle.html

Bernard le Bouyer de Fontenelle Born: 11 Feb 1657 in Rouen, France Died: 9 Jan 1757 in Paris, France Click the picture above to see a larger version Show birthplace location Previous (Chronologically) Next Biographies Index Previous (Alphabetically) Next Main index Bernard de Fontenelle was educated in a Jesuit College in Rouen and became friends with Varignon and . He wrote on the history of mathematics and the philosophy of mathematics and science. He evaluated the works of others extremely well and his works contain a wonderful source of information about the scientists of his era. Fontenelle's most famous work was Newton and Leibniz being particularly notable. In 1699 Fontenelle wrote Of the Usefulness of Mathematical Learning. In it he wrote 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 ... . One would think at first that if the Mathematicks were to be confin'd to what is useful in them, they ought only to be improv'd in those things which have an immediate and sensible Affinity with Arts, and the rest ought to be neglected as a Vain Theory. But this would be a very wrong Notion. As for Instance, the Art of Navigation hath a necessary Connection with Astronomy, and Astronomy can never be too much improv'd for the Benefit of Navigation. Astronomy cannot be without Optics by reason of Perspective Glasses: and both, as all parts of the Mathematicks are grounded upon Geometry ... .

10. Quotations By Fontenelle Quotations by bernard de fontenelle. Mathematicians are like lovers.Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Quotations/Fontenelle.html

Quotations by Bernard de Fontenelle Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also grant him, and from this consequence another. Quoted in V H Larney Abstract Algebra: A First Course (Boston 1975). A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the hand of geometry. Preface Leibniz never married; he had considered it at the age of fifty; but the person he had in mind asked for time to reflect. This gave Leibniz time to reflect, too, and so he never married. Eloge de le Leibniz Science originates from curiosity and bad eyesight. Nothing proves more clearly that the mind seeks truth, and nothing reflects more glory upon it, than the delight it takes, sometimes in spite of itself, in the driest and thorniest researches of algebra. An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages. ...as princes monopolize the earth, it is but fair that astronomers should have the sky for their share, and not suffer princes to intrude on their domain. Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds Main index Quotations index Biographies Index History Topics ... Societies, honours, etc.

11. Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier De Pronunciation Key. fontenelle, bernard le Bovier de , 16571757 See The Achievement of bernard le Bovier de fontenelle ( selected works, tr http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0819096.html

HOTWORDS CITE PRINT EMAIL in All Infoplease Almanacs Biographies Dictionary Encyclopedia Home Almanacs Atlas Dictionary ... D-Day Infoplease Tools Periodic Table Conversion Tool Perpetual Calendar Year by Year ... Site Map Also from Infoplease Search Infoplease Info search tips Search Biographies Bio search tips Encyclopedia Fontenelle, Bernard le Bovier de u b O vy A u u nel] Pronunciation Key Fontenelle, Bernard le Bovier de , French writer; nephew of Corneille. His forte was the interpretation of science. His works include Dialogues des morts (1683), observations on man; Histoire des oracles (1687), attacking superstition; L'Origine des fables (1724), on the origin of religions; and See The Achievement of Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle (selected works, tr. and introd. by L. M. Marsak, 1970). The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Fontanne, Lynn Fontenoy Related content from HighBeam Research on: Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Year 1657 (Calendar of Literary Events) Year 1757 (Calendar of Literary Events) Art and science meet with novel results (International Herald Tribune) Resurrecting death: anatomical art in the cabinet of Dr. Frederik Ruysch.

12. BERNARD LE BOVIER DE FONTENELLE fontenelle, bernard LE BOVIER de (16571757), p French author, was born at Rouen,on the 11th of February 165 7. He died in Paris, on the 9th of Janua. http://54.1911encyclopedia.org/F/FO/FONTENELLE_BERNARD_LE_BOVIER_DE.htm

BERNARD LE BOVIER DE FONTENELLE FONTENELLE, BERNARD LE BOVIER DE His Letires galantes du chevalier dHer . . ., published anonymously in 1685, was an amusing collection of stories that immediately made its mark. In. 1686 his famous allegory of Rome and Geneva, slightly disguised as the rival princesses Mreo and Eenegu, in the Relation de lile de Borneo, gave proof of his daring in religious matters. But it was by his Nouveaux Dialogues des morts (f 683) that Fontenelle established a genuine claim to high literary rank; and that claim was enhanced three years later by the appearance of the Entretiens sur la pluralit des mondes (1686), a work which was among the very first to illustrate the possibility of being scientific without being either uninteresting or unintelligible to the ordinary reader. His object was to popularize among his countrymen the astronomical theories of Descartes; and it may well be doubted if that philosopher ever ranked a more ingenious or successful expositor among his disciples. Hitherto Fontenelle had made his home in Rouen, but in 1687 he removed to Paris; and in the same year he published his Hisloire des oracles, a book which made a considerable stir in theological and philosophical circles. It consisted of two essays, the first of which was designed to prove that oracles were not given by the supernatural agency of demons, and the second that they did not cease with the birth of Christ. It excited the suspicion of the Church, and a Jesuit, by name Baltus, published a ponderous refutation of it; but the peace-loving disposition of its author impelled him to leave his opponent unanswered. To the following year (I 688) belongs his Digression sur les anciens et les inodernes, in which he took the modern side in the controversy then raging; his Doutes sur le systme physique des causes occasionnelles (against Malebranche) appeared shortly afterwards.

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Encyclopedia Fontenelle, Bernard le Bovier de u b O vy A u u nel] Pronunciation Key Fontenelle, Bernard le Bovier de , French writer; nephew of Corneille. His forte was the interpretation of science. His works include Dialogues des morts (1683), observations on man; Histoire des oracles (1687), attacking superstition; L'Origine des fables (1724), on the origin of religions; and See The Achievement of Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle (selected works, tr. and introd. by L. M. Marsak, 1970). The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Fontanne, Lynn Fontenoy Print this page Cite this page AD AD AD ADS Link to Fact Monster Add Fact Monster search to your site ... Privacy Brought to you by:

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Fontenelle, Bernard le Bovier de (1657-1757), philosophe et poète français qui annonça l'esprit des Lumières en vulgarisant des théories scientifiques nouvelles. Né à Rouen, neveu de Pierre et Thomas Corneille, fils d'avocat, il fréquenta le collège des jésuites, étudia le droit et se consacra très tôt à la littérature. Il avait vingt ans lorsque son oncle Thomas l'engagea comme collaborateur dans sa revue, le Mercure galant. En 1680, il fit jouer Aspar , dont la représentation fut un échec. Il retourna alors à Rouen, et publia, entre 1682 et 1687, des textes qui le firent connaître en tant que philosophe et scientifique soucieux de vulgarisation intelligente, plus encore que comme poète (il composa des poésies précieuses, des opéras et des tragédies). Parmi ses nombreux ouvrages, on peut citer: la République des philosophes , roman utopique vantant une démocratie radicale, matérialiste et athée ; les Dialogues des morts , imités de Lucien, qui rapportent des conversations fictives entre Sénèque et Scarron, Socrate et Montaigne ; un article ironique sur la rivalité entre les religions juive, catholique et calviniste ; des Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes , vulgarisation des théories de Copernic ; un traité sur

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Essentiel Il nous faut peu de mots pour exprimer l'essentiel; il nous faut tous les mots pour le rendre réel. Eluard (Eugène Grindel, dit Paul) Que l'importance soit dans ton regard, non dans la chose regardée. André Gide Les choses capitales qui ont été dites à l'humanité ont toujours été des choses simples. Charles de Gaulle On ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Estime On est rarement maître de se faire aimer, on l'est toujours de se faire estimer. Fontenelle (Bernard Le Bovier de) Nous sommes plus jaloux de la considération des autres que de leur estime. Marivaux (Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de) Il y a autant de vices qui viennent de ce qu'on ne s'estime pas assez, que de ce qu'on s'estime trop. Montesquieu (Charles de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de) Liste des thèmes Éternel En France, le provisoire est éternel, quoique le Français soit soupçonné d'aimer le changement. Balzac (Honoré de) Quand il existe quelque chose d'éternel, comment ferais-je pour n'en pas être éternellement le témoin ? Claudel (Paul) Rien n'est éternel, pas même la reconnaissance.

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