Robert Lenoble

Robert Lenoble (born March 1, 1902 in Orléans , † January 4, 1959 ibid) was a French clergyman (Abbé) and science historian.

Lenoble attended the Lyceum in Valence and then entered the Oratorian Order. After studying in Rome, he was ordained in 1925. He taught at the colleges of the Order in Juilly , Massillon and Saint-Michel near Paris. After a serious injury in a mountain accident in 1949, he retired to the Saint-Euverte College in Orléans.

In 1943 he received his doctorate at the Sorbonne with a dissertation on Marin Mersenne (Mersenne ou la naissance du mécanisme), which emphasizes its independent and central role in the emergence of the mechanistic worldview in the 17th century (independent of Cartesianism ). He was also involved in the editing of Mersenne's works and its correspondence (directed by Cornelis de Waard ). At last he planned to write a history of the idea of ​​nature, but could not complete it.

From 1947 he did research for the CNRS and in 1957 was accepted into the French National Committee for the History of Science.

Fonts

• Essai sur la notion d'expérience, Paris: Vrin 1943 (second part of his dissertation)
• Mersenne ou La naissance du mécanisme, Paris: Vrin 1971
• Esquisse d'une histoire de l'idée de nature, Paris: Albin Michel 1968
• Origines de la pensée scientifique moderne, in Maurice Daumas (ed.), Histoire de la Science, Pléiade-Gallimard, 1958, pp. 369-535
• Revolution scientifique du XIIe siècle, in René Taton (ed.), Histoire générale des Sciences, Presse Universitaire de France 1958, Volume 2, pp. 185–208 (and Electricité et magnetisme , pp. 324–340)

literature

• Obituary by Pierre Costabel , Revue d'histoire des sciences et leurs applications, Volume 12, 1959, pp. 167-169, online