Bernard le Bouyer de Fontenelle (1657--1757)


A minor figure, but interesting. He was a popularizer of science is most famous for his Entretiens sur la pluralite' des mondes (1686) In this work, the infinity of worlds, Suns, and aliens are suggests in a series of dialogues with une Marquise belle.

Images

  1. Fontenelle

Pages

  1. Biography in the St. Andrews Lives of the Mathematicians