Author: Bernard LeBovier de FontenellePublisher:
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Languages : fr
Pages : 343
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Contenant Les Entretiens Sur La Pluralité Des Mondes
Author: Bernard LeBovier de FontenellePublisher:
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Languages : fr
Pages : 343
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Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes
Author: Bernard Le Bouyer de FontenellePublisher:
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Languages : fr
Pages : 552
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Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes
Author: Bernard Le Bovier de FontenellePublisher:
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Languages : fr
Pages : 326
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Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes
Author: FontenelleEntretiens sur la pluralité des mondes
Author: M. de Fontenelle (Bernard Le Bovier)Publisher:
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Languages : fr
Pages : 79
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Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes, par Fontenelle ...
Author: Bernard : de FontenellePublisher:
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Languages : fr
Pages : 326
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Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes. Par l'autheur des Dialogues des morts [i.e. Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle].
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Author: Bernard : de FontenellePublisher:
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Languages : fr
Pages : 212
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Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes
Author: Bernard Le Bouyer de FontenellePublisher:
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Pages : 340
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Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds
Author: M. de (Bernard Le Bovier) FontenellePublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520071719
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Surveying the night sky, a charming philosopher and his hostess, the Marquise, are considering thep ossibility of travelers from the moon. "What if they were skillful enough to navigate on the outer surface of our air, and from there, through their curiosity to see us, they angled for us like fish? Would that please you?" asks the philosopher. "Why not?" the Marquise replies. "As for me, I'd put myself into their nets of my own volition just to have the pleasure of seeing those who caught me." In this imaginary conversation of three hundred years ago, readers can share the excitement of a new, extremely daring view of the uinverse. Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds (Entretiens sur la pluralit des mondes), first published in 1686, is one of the best loved classics of the early French enlightenment. Through a series of informal dialogues that take place on successive evenings in the marquise's moonlit gardens, Fontenelle describes the new cosmology of the Copernican world view with matchles clarity, imagination, and wit. Moreover, he boldly makes his interlocutor a woman, inviting female participation in the almost exclusively male province of scientific discourse. The popular Fontenelle lived through an entire century, from 1657 to 1757, and wrote prolifically. H. A. Hargreaves's fresh, appealing translation brings the author's masterpiece to new generations of readers, while the introduction by Nina Rattner Gelbart clearly demonstrates the importance of the Conversations for the history of science, of women, of literature, and of French civilization, and for the popularization of culture.
Author: Fontenelle