Honoré Fabri
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Honoré Fabri (Honoratus Fabrius; 5 April 1607 or 8 April 1608
Biography
Honoré Fabri was born on 5 April 1607 in Virieu-le-Grand, Ain, France. He entered the
Fabri was a highly respected scientist among his contemporaries. He was elected to the
He died on 8 March 1688, at the age of 79 in Rome.
Works
The following are the more important of his publications:
- Tractatus physicus du motu locali (1646).
- Metaphysica Demonstrativa, Sive Scientia Rationum Universalium (Lyon, 1648).
- Pithanophilus, seu dialogus vel opusculum de opinione probabili, etc. (Rome, 1659).
This work was attacked by
- Honorati Fabri, Societatis Jesu, apolgeticus doctrinæ moralis ejusdem Societatis, (Lyons, 1670; Cologne, 1672).
This treats, in eleven dialogues, of probabilism, explaining its true nature, and refuting the charges of its opponents. The Cologne edition was considerably enlarged but did not meet with ecclesiastical approbation; it was placed on the Index of forbidden books soon after its appearance.
- Una fides unius Ecclesiæ Romanæ contra indifferentes hujus sæculi tribus librus facili methodo asserto, (Dillingen, 1657).
- Summula theologica in quâ quæstiones omnes alicujus momenti, quæ a Scholasticus agitari solent, breviter discutiuntur ac definiuntur, (Lyons, 1669).
The principles on which this work constructs its theological conclusions are far different from those of Aristotle.
- Euphiander seu vir ingeniosus, (Lyons, 1669; Vienna, 1731; Budapest, 1749; Ofen, 1763).
Most of Fabri's other works deal with philosophy, mathematics, physics, astronomy, and even zoology. In his treatise on man, he claims to have discovered the
- Dialogi physici sex quorum primum est de Lumine (1669) ["Six dialogues on physics: the first is on Light"] is a treatise on physics in dialog form. The first dialog contained description of Grimaldi's experiments reported in Physico-mathesis de lumine (1665), which included the first reports of diffraction.[6] Isaac Newton by his own admission[7] learned about diffraction from the first dialog. The book was sent to Newton by John Collins on 30 April 1672.[8]
See also
- List of Roman Catholic scientist-clerics
References
- ^ "Fabri, Honoré". Scholasticon (in French).
5.IV.1607, ou 8.IV.1608 selon d'autres source
- ^ a b c d Honoré Fabri. www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk
- ^ ISBN 978-94-007-1605-6.
- ^ John L. Heilbron, Electricity in the 17th and 18th centuries: A study of early modern physics. Univ of California Press, 1979. p. 195.
- ^ cf. Bellynck (1864) Cours de Zoologie, p. 23.
- ^ "Francesco Grimaldi - Biography". Maths History. Retrieved 30 March 2023.
- ISBN 978-0-521-73783-8.
- ISSN 0035-9149.
Further reading
- Sommervogel, Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jésus (Brussels and Paris, 1892), III, 511–521;
- Hugo von Hurter, Nomenclator Literarius (Innsbruck 1893), tom. II, 598–600.
- Palmerino, Carla Rita, "Fabri, Honoré (c. 1608–1688)", in : Dictionary of Seventeenth Century French Philosophers, ed. Luc Foisneau, London – New York : Thoemmes – Continuum, 2008, vol. I, 453–460
External links
- Elazar, Michael; Feldhay, Rivka (2018). "Jesuit Conceptions of Impetus After Galileo: Honoré Fabri, .
- Honoré Fabri, S.J. (1607 to 1688) and his post-calculus geometry
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F. (September 2022), "Honoré Fabri", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
- Galileo Project page
- Honoré's (1667) Synopsis optica - digital facsimile from the Linda Hall Library
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Honoré Fabri". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
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