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Bernard le Bovier de Fontanelle. Line engraving by T. Cook after P. Savart.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontanelle. Stipple engraving by J. Condé, 1793.

Philosophers and virtuosi: twenty portraits. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1825.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontanelle. Line engraving by J. Corner, 1794, after P. Savart.

Nicolas L'Émery nell'"Éloge" di Fontenelle / Patrizia Catellani, Renzo Console.

Fontenelle as a popularizer of science : (with a version of his Dialogues of medico-historical interest) / F.H. Garrison.

Science and humanism in the French enlightenment / Aram Vartanian ; introduction by Lester G. Crocker.

The life of Sir Isaac Newton; with an account of his writings. By M. Fontenelle, Of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris.

An account of the life and writings of Sr. Isaac Newton. Translated from the Eloge of M. Fontenelle, Secretary of the Academy of Sciences at Paris.

A week's conversation on the plurality of worlds. To which is prefixed, a memoir of the author's life and writings / by M. de Voltaire.

Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes [of I-VI, with 'Description d'un sphère armillaire'] / [Fontenelle (Bernard Le Bovier)].

Poesies pastorales. Avec un traité sur la nature de l'eglogue, & une digression sur les anciens & les modernes. Par M. de Fontenelle de L'Academie Françoise.

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Fontenelle, M. de (Bernard Le Bovier), 1657-1757

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The life of Sir Isaac Newton; with an account of his writings. By M. Fontenelle, Of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris.

An account of the life and writings of Sr. Isaac Newton. Translated from the Eloge of M. Fontenelle, Secretary of the Academy of Sciences at Paris.

A week's conversation on the plurality of worlds. To which is prefixed, a memoir of the author's life and writings / by M. de Voltaire.

Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes [of I-VI, with 'Description d'un sphère armillaire'] / [Fontenelle (Bernard Le Bovier)].

Poesies pastorales. Avec un traité sur la nature de l'eglogue, & une digression sur les anciens & les modernes. Par M. de Fontenelle de L'Academie Françoise.