Jean-Baptiste Du Hamel

Jean -Baptiste Hamel You or Duhamel ( born June 11, 1624 Vire, Calvados Dep, . † August 6, 1706 in Paris) was a French philosopher and theologian.

As the son of a notary Nicolas You Hamel, he began his studies at Caen and finished it in Paris. 1642, ie 18 years, he published an analysis of the mathematical work " sphériques " by Theodosius of Tripoli, adding its own treatise on trigonometry.

As Colbert founded in 1666 the Académie des sciences, he convened You Hamel to permanent secretary. This office he held until 1697, when Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle became his successor.

Together with the brother of Colbert, he took in 1668 at the peace negotiations in Aachen part. Later, he visited England, where he met the physicist Robert Boyle. 1698, when he was already 74 years old, he published his report " Regiae Scientiarum ... " on the results of Academy members.

In his lyrics you showed Hamel a balanced judgment. His admiration for the empirical sciences are not seduced him to devalue speculations of others. Rather, he examined other views thoroughly criticized conciliatory and was cautious his own dissenting opinion. In his History of Philosophy Jakob Brucker praised him especially. Fontenelle as the successor of Du Hamel praised his impartiality and kindness.

Works

  • Philosophia christiana moralis (Angers, 1652)
  • Astronomia physica (Paris, 1659)
  • De meteoris et fossilibus (Paris, 1659)
  • De consensu veteris et Novae Philosophiæ (Paris, 1663 )
  • De corporum affectionibus (Paris, 1670 )
  • De instruments Humana (Paris, 1672)
  • De corpore animato (Paris, 1673 )
  • Philosophia vetus et nova ad usum scholae accommodata ( 1678)
  • Theologia practica Speculatrix et juxta SS Patrum dogmata pertractata, et ad usum scholae accommodata (7 vols., Paris, 1690)
  • Regiae Academiae Scientiarum historia ( Hist. de l' Académie des sciences, s latin ) ( 1698, 2e éd 1701. ); Academy reports
  • Institutiones biblica; seu Scriptura; Sacrae prolegomena una cum Selectis annotationibus in Pentateuchum (Paris, 1698 )
  • Psaumes ( 1701)
  • Livres de Salomon ( 1703)
  • Sapience (1703)
  • Ecclesiastes (1703).
  • Biblia Sacra Vulgatæ editionis (Paris, 1705)

Swell

  • Antoine Laurent Bayle, Auguste Thillaye, biography médicale par ordre chronologique, Paris, Delahays, 1855
  • Augustin Vialard, J.-B. You Hamel, Paris, TeQui, 1884
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