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CHAUVIN, ETIENNE (1640-1725)

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 20 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHAUVIN, See also:ETIENNE (1640-1725) , See also:French See also:Protestant divine, was See also:born at See also:Nimes on the 18th of See also:April 164o. At the revocation of the See also:Edict of See also:Nantes he retired to See also:Rotterdam, where he was for some years preacher at the Walloon See also:church; in 1695 the elector of See also:Brandenburg appointed him pastor and See also:professor of See also:philosophy, and later inspector of the French See also:college at See also:Berlin, where he enjoyed considerable reputation as a representative of See also:Cartesianism and as a student of physics. His See also:principal See also:work is a laborious See also:Lexicon Rationale, sive See also:Thesaurus Philosophic= (Rotterdam, 1692; new and enlarged edition, Leuwarden, 1713). He also wrote Theses de Cognitione Dei (1662), and started the Nouveau See also:Journal See also:des Savans (1694-1698). See E. and E. Haag, La See also:France Protestante, vol. iv. (1884).

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