Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle (French: [fɔ̃tənɛl]; 11 February 1657 – 9 January 1757), also called Bernard Le Bouyer de Fontenelle, was a French author...

Nebraska Logan Fontenelle Middle School, Bellevue, Nebraska Fontenelle (crater), a crater on the Moon Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle (1657–1757), French...

pluralité des mondes) is a popular science book by French author Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, published in 1686. The book expresses support for cosmic pluralism...

architect. According to Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle he was an "academy unto himself". He was born in Paris, the son of Laurent de La Hire, a distinguished...

its habitués Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre, Pierre de Marivaux, Alexis...

publication of Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds by Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle (1686), and by the early 18th century it was the default working...

friends included Helvétius, Claudine Guérin de Tencin, Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle and even Madame de Pompadour (who allegedly provided him with a...

Foremost among the critics were Thomas Corneille, Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, and Isaac de Benserade, who were clearly critical of the book. They...

Louvre) Essaying and scientist Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle (1749) Carnegie Museum of Art Geneviève-Françoise Randon de Malboissière (1768), Metropolitan...

would last until the beginning of the eighteenth century. Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle and the Mercure galant joined the "Moderns". Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux...

very author". Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, François Fénelon, Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle, and Voltaire all wrote adaptations of Lucian's Dialogues of...

Starting at 0 or 1 has long been a matter of definition. In 1727, Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle wrote that his notions of distance and element led to defining...

War, adapted from Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part 2 and Part 3 Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle – Aspar Nathaniel Lee Lucius Junius Brutus The Princess of...

Castel, French Jesuit mathematician and physicist (born 1688) Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, French scientific populariser (born 1657) August 28 – David...

Enlightenment, cosmic pluralism became a mainstream possibility. Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle's Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes (Conversations on the...

for Generating Pythagorean Triples Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle (1790) Eloge de Ozanam, Oeuvres de Fontenelle, Tome 6, p 506, link from Internet Archive...

left uncompleted by Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, and was also authorized to submit to the minister, Cardinal André-Hercule de Fleury, the best means...

Jean-Baptiste Lully and a libretto by Thomas Corneille and Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle first performed by the Opéra at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal...

lyrique in five acts. It is a resetting of a libretto by Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle, which was originally set by Pascal Collasse in 1690. The story is...

in Classical Greece and Rome. The "moderns" (epitomised by Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle) took the position that the modern age of science and reason...

Fondane (1898–1944) Pedro da Fonseca (1528–1599)[1][2][4] Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle (1657–1757)[1][2][4] Philippa Foot (1920–2010)[1][2][3][5]...

mobile. But Swedenborg replied with a quote by French author Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle: The art of flying is hardly yet born. It will be perfected...

Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds, published in France by Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle and translated into English and other languages in the coming...

Florence. February 11 – Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, French scientific populariser (died 1757) approx. date – Pierre-Charles Le Sueur, French fur trader...

publication in London. May 5 – Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle becomes a member of the Académie française. Adrien Baillet – La vie de monsieur Descartes Barbara...

of his incognito Grand Embassy to western Europe. January – Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle becomes perpetual secretary of the French Academy of Sciences...

Lavinie (with Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle), lyric tragedy in 5 actst music by Antoine Dauvergne, presented at the Académie royale de musique, 14 February...

earliest depictions of stars as locations that can be visited is Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle's 1686 work Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes (Conversations...

purpose. The watchmaker analogy, as described here, was used by Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle in 1686, but was most famously formulated by Paley. Paley used...

Thomas Otway 1657 – Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle 1667 – Jonathan Swift 1668 – Alain-René Lesage 1675 – Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon 1681 – Robert...