Jean Trembley

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Jean Trembley (born April 13, 1749 in Geneva , † September 18, 1811 in Le Mas-d'Agenais ) was a Geneva mathematician and philosopher .

Life

Jean Trembley was the son of Jacques-André Trembley (born October 8, 1714 in Geneva, † April 24, 1763 ibid), professor and rector at the University of Geneva and his wife Anne (1728–1763), a daughter of the doctor Pierre Colladon (1681-1740). His uncle was the naturalist Abraham Trembley (1710–1784) and his cousin, the politician, Jean-Charles Trembley (1764–1846).

Jean Trembley married on November 24, 1790 in Vich Marie-Elisabeth (born October 24, 1765), a daughter of Marc-Etienne de Ribeaupierre (1723-1785). They had two children together:

  • Louise Trembley (* 1792);
  • Julie Trembley (* 1795).

He began studying law at the University of Geneva; but after a short time already the subject of studies and then studied, as an assistant under the direction of Jacques-André Mallet , Director of the Geneva Observatory , astronomy , plus philosophy and psychology , heard here he lectures by Charles Bonnet .

In 1767 he received his doctorate under Horace Bénédict de Saussure with a dissertation on reproduction.

In 1786 he traveled from Paris to northern Europe and in 1794, fleeing the French Revolution , which had meanwhile reached Geneva , moved to Berlin , where he stayed until the beginning of 1807 and then settled in France .

Scientific work

Jean Trembley contributed to the development of differential equations and the calculus of probability and solved physical and mechanical problems with the help of geometry . He also published psychological treatises, the most original of which appeared in the negotiations of the Academy of Sciences in 1781 and concerned the usefulness and further development of psychology.

Philosophical work

Jean Trembley was a characteristic figure of the Enlightenment in Switzerland and he succeeded in building bridges between the French and the German cultural area by presenting a work by the German philosopher Johann Heinrich Lambert in French. He postulated the moral and cognitive importance of empirical facts in mathematics , physics , psychology, aesthetics , theology and politics and took up the fight against prejudices that, in his opinion, lay in systems thinking .

Memberships

Fonts (selection)

  • Dissertatio physica de generatione . Genevae: Ex typographia Steph. Blanc et JP Bonnant, 1767.
  • Edward Waring ; John Archdeacon; Jean Trembley: Meditationes Algebraicæ. From Edvardo Waring, MD Mag. Coll. Cantab. Soc. Matheseos professore Lucasiano, Regiæ societatis, et Bononiensis scientiarum academiæ socio . Cantabrigiæ: Typis Academis excudebat J. Archdeacon. Veneunt apud J. Woodyer, Cantabrigiae; J. Beecroft, T. Payne, et T. Cadell, Londini; et D. Prince, Oxon. 1770.
  • Nouvelle ouverture de conciliation, ou, Voie simple et abrégée de parvenir à une prompte et solid pacification . 1779.
  • Jean Trembley; Johann Heinrich Lambert: Exposition de quelques points de la doctrine des principes de Mr. Lambert . La Haye, 1780.
  • Traité de l'utilité de la science psychologique, ou Réponse à la question proposée par la Société de Harlem ... In negotiations uitgegeeven door de Hollandsche Maatschapye der Weetenschappen te Haarlem 1781.
  • Second moyen de nous concilier par nous-mêmes dans les circonstances présentes . 1782.
  • Essai de trigonométrie sphérique, contenant diverses applications de cette science à l'astronomie, by Jean Trembley . Neuchâtel: Impr. De S. Fauche père et fils, 1783.
  • Essai sur les préjugés: où l'on traite principalement de la nature et de l'influence des préjugés philosophiques . 1790.
  • Research on les intégrales particulières des equations différentielles . Berlin 1793.
  • Memoire pour servir à l'histoire de la vie et des ouvrages de M. Charles Bonnet . Berne La Nouvelle Société Typographique 1794.
  • Jean Trembley; Johann August Nösselt : About Carl Bonnet: History of his life and his spirit . Hall: Orphanage Bookshop, 1795.
  • Recherches sur les intégrales premières des equations aux différences partielles du second degré et du troisième à trois variables . S. Pétersbourg, 1803.

He published 30 articles in the Nouveaux Mémoires de l'Académie Royale (1775) and Mémoires de l'Académie de Berlin (1786–1787 and 1792–1804).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jacques Augustin Galiffe: Notices GENEALOGIQUES Sur Les Familles Genevoises, Depus Les Premiers Temps jusqu'à Nos Jours [Continuées Par J.-B.-G. Galiffe] . J. Barbezat, 1831, p. 295 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ^ Nouveaux Mémoires de l'Académie Royale - Wikisource. Retrieved May 26, 2019 .
  3. ^ Mémoires de l'Académie Royale - Wikisource. Retrieved May 26, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Trembley, Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss mathematician and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1749
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva
DATE OF DEATH September 18, 1811
Place of death Le Mas-d'Agenais