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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

Eyriès André Félibien Jean François Boissonade de Fontarabie Nicolas Fréret Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Étienne Fourmont Antoine Galland Ernst Hoepffner...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

Jan 1697 – Dec 1740 Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle (nominated by king in Jan 1699) Jan 1741 – Aug 1743 Jean-Jacques Dortous de Mairan Sep 1743 – Jul...

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...

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]...

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

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

Antonio Galignani, Italian publisher (died 1821) January 9 – Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle, French dramatist and author (born 1657) January 19 – Thomas...

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...

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...