Jean-Baptiste Du Hamel

This article is about a French philosopher of the 17th and 18th centuries. Century, for the mining professor of the 18th / 19th centuries Century s. Jean Baptist Duhamel

Jean-Baptiste Du Hamel

Jean-Baptiste Du Hamel or Duhamel (born June 11, 1624 in Vire , Dep. Calvados, † August 6, 1706 in Paris ) was a French philosopher and theologian.

As the son of the notary Nicolas Du Hamel, he began his studies in Caen and finished them in Paris. In 1642, at the age of 18, he published an analysis of the mathematical work "Spheriques" by Theodosios of Tripoli and added his own treatise on trigonometry.

• 1643–1653 member of the Congregation de l´Oratoire
• 1653–1663 priest in Neuilly-sur-Marne
• 1663–1666 Chancellor of the Church of Bayeux

When Colbert founded the Académie des sciences in 1666 , he appointed Du Hamel as permanent secretary. He held this office until 1697, when Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle was his successor.

Together with Colbert's brother, he took part in the peace negotiations in Aachen in 1668 . He later visited England, where he met the physicist Robert Boyle . In 1698, when he was already 74 years old, he published his report "Regiae Scientiarum ..." on the results of the academy members.

In his texts, Du Hamel showed a balanced judgment. His admiration for the empirical sciences did not lead him to devalue the speculations of others. Rather, he examined other views thoroughly, criticized conciliatory and cautiously expressed his own dissenting opinion. Jakob Brucker particularly praised him in his history of philosophy . Fontenelle, as Du Hamel's successor, praised his impartiality and philanthropy.

Works

• Philosophia moralis christiana (Angers, 1652)
• Astronomia physica (Paris, 1659)
• De meteoris et fossilibus (Paris, 1659)
• De consensu veteris et novæ philosophiæ (Paris, 1663)
• De corporum affectionibus (Paris, 1670)
• De mente humanā (Paris, 1672)
• De corpore animato (Paris, 1673)
• Philosophia vetus et nova ad usum scholae accommodata (1678)
• Theologia speculatrix et practica juxta SS Patrum dogmata pertractata, et ad usum scholae accommodata (7 vols., Paris, 1690)
• Regiae Scientiarum Academiae historia (Hist. De l'Académie des sciences, en latin) (1698; 2e éd. 1701); Academy reports
• Institutiones biblica; seu scriptura; Sacrae prolegomena una cum selectis annotationibus in Pentateuchum (Paris, 1698)
• Psaumes (1701)
• Livres de Salomon (1703)
• Sapience (1703)
• Ecclésiaste (1703).
• Biblia sacra Vulgatæ editionis (Paris, 1705)

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• Antoine Laurent Bayle , Auguste Thillaye, Biographie médicale par ordre chronologique, Paris, Delahays, 1855
• Augustin Vialard, J.-B. Du Hamel, Paris, Téqui, 1884

Web links

• Literature by and about Jean-Baptiste Du Hamel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Publications by and about Jean-Baptiste Du Hamel in VD 17 .