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DUHAMEL, JEAN BAPTISTE (1624-1706)

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DUHAMEL, See also:JEAN See also:BAPTISTE (1624-1706) , See also:French physicist, was See also:born in 1624 at See also:Vire in See also:Normandy. He studied at See also:Caen and See also:Paris; wrote at eighteen a See also:tract on the Spherics of See also:Theodosius of.Tripolis; then became an Oratorian See also:priest, and fulfilled with See also:great devotion for ten years (1653-1663) the duties of cure at Neuilly-sur-See also:Marne. He was appointed in 1656 See also:almoner to the See also:king, and in 1666 perpetual secretary to the newly founded See also:Academy of Sciences. He died on the 6th of See also:August 1706. He published among other See also:works: Astronomia physica (1660) and De meteoris et fossilibus {1660), both in ,See also:dialogue See also:form; De consensu veteris et novae philosophiae (1663); De corporum a8•ectionibus (1672); De mente human (1673); Regiae scientiarum Academiae historic, 1666-1696 (1698), new edition brought down to 1700 (1701); Institutiones biblicae (1698); followed by annotated See also:editions of the See also:Psalms (1701), of the See also:Book of See also:Wisdom, &c. (17o3),,and of the entire See also:Bible in 1705.

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