... by Duke University Press 2017 Adam Smith astronomy morality commercial society Fontenelle Copernican system gravity References Adkins Gregory Matthew . 2000 . “When Ideas Matter: The Moral Philosophy of Fontenelle.” Journal of the History of Ideas 61 ( 3 ): 433 – 52...

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... and the Origins of Economic Liberalism. Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology 4 : 67 -83. Dictionary of National Biography. CD-Rom, version 1 . New York: Oxford University Press, Fontenelle, Bernard le Bovier de. [1686] 1990 . Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds . Translated...

... profoundly reshaped by Bernard de Fontenelle, secretary of the Royal Academy of Science, in the beginning of the eighteenth century.2 Jean le Rond d’Alembert and the Marquis 1. In this paragraph and in the following, our analysis is based on Roche 1978, 1:166–81. See also Paul 1980. 2...

... .” Boisguilbert was among the first, if not the first, to conceive, albeit imperfectly, of the system of relations that underlies the economic order, guided to this inference perhaps by the Cartesian Fontenelle’s popular Pluralitt des mondes (1686), in which the well-hidden “cords” in “the Machines...

...: Macmillan. Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier de. 1719 . A short Account of Monsieur Tournefort's Life and Writings. In The Compleat Herbal: or, the Botanical Institutions of Mr. Tournefort, Chief Botanist to the late French King , by Joseph Pitton de Tournefort. London: For R. Bonwicke et al. Fox...

....6 Such a conclusion is too hasty. After extolling the doctrine of self- dependence, Mill reminds us of the dictum of Fontenelle that “mankind only settle in the right course after passing through and exhausting all va- rieties of error” (1871, 366). Privately he was less reticent: “I...

... fois la vigueur primitive revenue, dit Delisle de Sales, on pourrait se passer de ces 292 HISTORY OF POLITICAL ECONOMY horribles machines que sont devenus les carrosses.” I1 pensait aussi que les hommes pourraient vivre dix fois plus que Fontenelle, donc mille ans, lorsque la...