JEAN

See also:

• BAPTISTE

BAPTISTE

See also:

• JEAN BAPTISTE DUHAMEL (1624-1706)

DUHAMEL (1624-1706)  , French physicist, was born in 1624 at Vire in Normandy . He studied at Caen and Paris; wrote at eighteen a tract on the Spherics of Theodosius of.Tripolis; then became an Oratorian priest, and fulfilled with great devotion for ten years (1653-1663) the duties of cure at Neuilly-sur-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 works: Astronomia physica (1660) and De meteoris et fossilibus {1660), both in ,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 editions of the Psalms (1701), of the Book of Wisdom, &c . (17o3),,and of the entire Bible in 1705 .