Bernard Lamy
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| Born | 15 June 1640 Le Mans, France |
| Died | 29 January 1715 (aged 74) Rouen, France |
| Known for | Parallelogram of force |
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| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | College of Juilly, University of Angers |
Bernard Lamy (15 June 1640 – 29 January 1715) was a French
Life
Lamy was born in
Lamy became professor of classics at Vendôme in 1661, and at Juilly in 1663. He was ordained in 1667.
After teaching a few years at Le Mans he was appointed to a chair of philosophy in the University of Angers. Here his teaching was attacked on the ground that it was too exclusively Cartesian, and Rebous the rector obtained in 1675 from the state authorities a decree forbidding him to continue his lectures.
He was then sent by his superiors to
Works
His best known work is the Traité de Mécanique (1679), showing the parallelogram of force. He also wrote Traité de la grandeur en general (1680) and Les éléments de géometrie (1685).
His writings are numerous and varied. Among them may be mentioned:
- La Rhétorique ou l'art de parler, (Paris, 1675, Rhetoric, or the art of speaking, English translation 1676) of this twenty editions were published.[1]
- Apparatus ad Biblia Sacra, etc. (Grenoble, 1687), translated into French by order of the Bishop of Châlonsunder the title Introduction a la lecture de l'Ecriture Sainte (Lyons, 1689).
- Harmonia, sive Concordia quatuor Evangelistarum (Paris, 1689, A harmony or concordance of the Four Gospels). In this work he contends that Le Nain de Tillemont, and others (see Traité historique de l'ancienne Pâque des Juifs, Paris, 1693).
- Apparatus Biblicus, which is a development of his introduction (Lyons, 1696; Jena, 1709; Amsterdam, 1710). It was translated into French by deutero-canonical booksof the Bible.
- Défense de l'ancien sentiment de l'Eglise latine touchant l'office de sainte Madeleine (Rouen, Paris, 1697).
- A volume of commentaries on his previous concordance of the four Gospels (Paris, 1699).
- A Latin treatise on the Ark of the Covenant (Paris, 1720), a posthumous work published by Desmollets, who prefixed to the volume a biography of the author.
See also
- College of Juilly
- Lami's theorem
- List of Roman Catholic scientist-clerics
References
- ^ Translated in English in 1676; modern edition: John T. Harwood (ed.), The Rhetorics of Thomas Hobbes and Bernard Lamy, Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1986.
Bibliography
- François Girbal, Bernard Lamy (1640-1715), étude biographique et bibliographique, París: PUF, 1964.
- Regnier in Fulcran Vigouroux, Dictionnaire de la Bible, s.v.
- Ingold (1880–1882). Essai de biblioqraphie Oratorienne. Vol. V. Paris. pp. 64–70.
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External links
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Bernard Lamy", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Bernard Lamy". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
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