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

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pluralité des mondes) is a popular science book by French author Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, published in 1686. The work consists of six lessons popularizing...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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]...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

behaviour among them had been the most infamous. Later in France, Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle composed New Dialogues of the Dead (Nouveaux dialogues des...

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...

Francis Bacon's book the New Atlantis. In the 17th century, Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle described progress with respect to arts and the sciences, saying...

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

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

Silesius – Heilige Seelenlust (collection of hymns) February 11 – Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle French author (died 1757) March 24 – Arai Hakuseki, Japanese...

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...

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...

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...

(philosopher) Bernard d'Espagnat Bernard de Fontenelle Bernard Delfgaauw Bernard Gert Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle Bernard Lonergan...

Biblia de la București (Bucharest Bible, first complete translation into Romanian) Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle – Digression sur les anciens et les modernes...

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...

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...