Histoire critique du calcul des infiniment-petits, 1753

Alexandre Julien Savérien (16 July 1720 – 3 May 1805) was a French mathematician and polymath. He was born in Arles and became accomplished in both mathematics and naval engineering at a young age.[1] in 1754, he published the Universal Dictionary of Mathematics and Physics and Histoire des philosophes modernes in 1773, where he named the nine greatest modern philosophers as Jakob Abbadie, Erasmus, Thomas Hobbes, Nicole, John Locke, Baruch Spinoza, Nicolas Malebranche, Bayle, Clarke, and Collins.[2][3] He later became a member of the Academy of Lyon.[1]

Works

  • Descartes (in Italian). Venezia: Antonio Graziosi. 1774.

References

  1. 1 2 Piaia, Gregorio; Santinello, Giovanni (2015-08-24). Models of the History of Philosophy: Vol. III: The Second Enlightenment and the Kantian Age. Springer. pp. 98–115. ISBN 978-94-017-9966-9.
  2. ↑ Holland, Jocelyn (2019-05-30). The Lever as Instrument of Reason: Technological Constructions of Knowledge around 1800. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. p. 20. ISBN 978-1-5013-4607-1.
  3. ↑ Nakhimovsky, Isaac (January 2003). "The Enlightened Epicureanism of Jacques Abbadie: L'Art de se connoı^tre soi-même and the morality of self-interest". History of European Ideas. 29 (1): 1–14. doi:10.1016/S0191-6599(02)00092-X. ISSN 0191-6599.


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