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Author : M. de Fontenelle (Bernard Le Bovier)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1760
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018276039
Author : M. de Fontenelle (Bernard Le Bovier)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1767
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0023975399
Author : M. de Fontenelle (Bernard Le Bovier)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1767
Category : Plurality of worlds
ISBN : PRNC:32101074630052
Author : M. de Fontenelle (Bernard Le Bovier)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1767
Category : Imaginary conversations
ISBN : OCLC:1430344973
Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1903
Category : English literature
ISBN : UOM:39015084571465
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 860 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1903
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433000292130
Author : M. de (Bernard Le Bovier) Fontenelle
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520071711
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 pluralité 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 : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : English imprints
ISBN : IND:30000092329238
Author : M. de Fontenelle (Bernard Le Bovier)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1761
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019776788
Author : M. de Fontenelle (Bernard Le Bovier)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1803
Category : Plurality of worlds
ISBN : OXFORD:N10897982
Author : M. de Fontenelle
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4066338109132
De Fontenelle was a seventeenth-century writer and astronomer. This is a translation of his very famous and influential work. The conversations of the title are between a knowledgeable man and a woman who has no knowledge of astronomy. The intention of the book was to enable women to learn about the planets and the possibility that life (even if not human life) might exist on other planets.
Author : M. de Fontenelle (Bernard Le Bovier)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1749
Category : Plurality of words
ISBN : NLS:B900060223
Author : M. de Fontenelle (Bernard Le Bovier)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1769
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018271569
Author : M. de Fontenelle (Bernard Le Bovier),Gentleman of the Inner-Temple
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1760
Category : Plurality of worlds
ISBN : OCLC:3592777
Author : Bernard de Fontenelle
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 0364798769
Excerpt from Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds Whenever I have entered into conversation with any sensible woman on astronomy, I-have always found that she had read Fontenelle's Plurality of Worlds; au'd that his book had excited her. Curiosity on the subject. As it has been so much read already, it must continue to engage at tention: I therefore thought it would be useful to point out its faults; to add some observations, without which the reader would be led into error with respect to the vor tices; to make known the late discoveries; and to shew what numbers, before our author, had written on the plu rality of worlds. But I have made no alterations in the text; the reputation of Fontenelle renders 'him respectable, even in his mistakes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.