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Fontenelle, M. de (Bernard Le Bovier), 1657-1757

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  • Bernard le Bovier de Fontanelle. Line engraving by T. Cook after P. Savart.
  • Bernard le Bovier de Fontanelle. Stipple engraving by J. Condé, 1793.
  • Philosophers and writers: twenty portraits. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1825.
  • Bernard le Bovier de Fontanelle. Line engraving by J. Corner, 1794, after P. Savart.
  • Bernard le Bovier de Fontanelle. Line engraving by T. Cook after P. Savart.
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    A week's conversation on the plurality of worlds. To which is prefixed, a memoir of the author's life and writings / by M. de Voltaire.

    Fontenelle, M. de (Bernard Le Bovier), 1657-1757 | Date: 1807
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    Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes [of I-VI, with 'Description d'un sphère armillaire'] / [Fontenelle (Bernard Le Bovier)].

    Fontenelle, M. de (Bernard Le Bovier), 1657-1757 | Date: 1762
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    A week's conversation on the plurality of worlds / by Monsieur de Fontenelle ; translated by Mrs. A. Behn, Mr. J. Glanvil, John Hughes Esq. and William Gardner Esq. To which is added, Mr. Addison's defence on the Newtonian philosophy.

    Fontenelle, M. de (Bernard Le Bovier), 1657-1757. | Date: 1737
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    Fontenelle as a popularizer of science : (with a version of his Dialogues of medico-historical interest) / F.H. Garrison.

    Garrison, Fielding H. (Fielding Hudson), 1870-1935. | Date: 1966
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    Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes [I-VI] / par Fontenelle; Précédés de l'Astronomie des dames par J. de Lalande.

    Fontenelle, M. de (Bernard Le Bovier), 1657-1757. | Date: 1820
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