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Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
French writer and philosopher of the enlightenment (1657–1757)
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Philosophy
Astronomy
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French literature
Religion - Study and teaching
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A conversation on the plurality of worlds . Translated from the French of Monsieur de Fontenelle.
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Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
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Date: MDCCLIII. [1753]
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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.
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Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
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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)].
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Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
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Date: 1762
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The Elogium of Sir Isaac Newton By Monsieur Fontenelle, perpetual secretary of the Royal academy of sciences at Paris.
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Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
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Date: MDCCXXVIII. [1728]
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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.
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Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
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Date: 1737
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Nicolas L'Émery nell'"Éloge" di Fontenelle / Patrizia Catellani, Renzo Console.
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Patrizia Catellani
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Date: 2003
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Bernard le Bovier de Fontanelle. Stipple engraving by J. Condé, 1793.
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Date: 1793
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Reference: 2997i
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Bernard le Bovier de Fontanelle. Line engraving by J. Corner, 1794, after P. Savart.
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Pierre Savart
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Date: 1794
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Reference: 2996i
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Science and humanism in the French enlightenment / Aram Vartanian ; introduction by Lester G. Crocker.
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Aram Vartanian
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Date: [1999]
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Bernard le Bovier de Fontanelle. Line engraving by T. Cook after P. Savart.
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Pierre Savart
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Reference: 2995i
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Aphra Behn
John Glanvill
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Plurality of worlds
France
17th-18th centuries
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