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JEAN BAPTISTE DUHAMEL (1624-1706)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 649 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JEAN
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BAPTISTE DUHAMEL (1624-1706)
  , French physicist, was born in 1624 at
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Vire in
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Normandy . He studied at
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Caen and Paris; wrote at eighteen a tract on the Spherics of
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Theodosius of.Tripolis; then became an Oratorian priest, and fulfilled with
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great devotion for ten years (1653-1663) the duties of cure at Neuilly-sur-
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Marne . He was appointed in 1656 almoner to the king, and in 1666 perpetual secretary to the newly founded Academy of Sciences . He died on the 6th of August 1706 . He published among other
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works: Astronomia physica (1660) and De meteoris et fossilibus {1660), both in ,
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dialogue 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
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editions of the Psalms (1701), of the
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Book of Wisdom, &c . (17o3),,and of the entire Bible in 1705 .

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