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See also:JEAN See also:PIERRE DE See also:CROUSAZ (1663-175o) , Swiss writer, was See also:born at See also:Lausanne . He was a many-sided See also:man, whose numerous See also:works on many subjects had a See also:great See also:vogue in their See also:day, but are now forgotten . He has been described as an initiateur plutOt qu'un createur, chiefly because he introduced at Lausanne the See also:philosophy of See also:Descartes in opposition to the reigning Aristotelianism, and also as a Calvinist See also:pendant (for he was a pastor) of the See also:French See also:abbe's of the 18th See also:century . He studied at See also:Geneva, See also:Leyden and See also:Paris, before becoming (1700) See also:professor of philosophy and See also:mathematics at the See also:academy of Lausanne, of which he was four times See also:rector before 1724, when the theological disputes connected with the Consensus' led him to accept a See also:chair of philosophy and mathematics at See also:Groningen . In 1726 he was appointed See also:governor to the See also:young See also:prince See also:Frederick of See also:Hesse-See also:Cassel, and in 1735 returned to Lausanne with a See also:good See also:pension . In 1737 he was reinstated in his old chair, which he retained to his See also:death . See also:Gibbon, describing his first stay at Lausanne (1752-1755), writes in his Autobiography, "the See also:logic of de See also:Crousaz had prepared me to engage with his See also:master See also:Locke and. his antagonist See also:Bayle." The most important of his works are: Nouvel Essai de logique (1712), Geometrie See also:des lignes et des surfaces rectilignes et circulaires (1712), Traite du beau (1714), Examen du traite de la liberte de penser d'See also:Antoine See also:Collins (1718), De l'See also:education des enfants (1722, dedicated to the then Princess of See also:Wales), Examen du pyrrhonisme ancien et See also:modern (1733, an attack chiefly on Bayle), Examen de l'essai de M . See also:Pope sur l'homme (1737, an attack on the Leibnitzian theory of that poem), Logique (6 vols., 1741), De l'esprit humain (1741), and Reflexions sur l'ouvrage intitule: La Belle Wolfienne (1743) . (W . A . B . |
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