Louis Bourguet

Louis Bourguet (23 April 1678, Nîmes – 31 December 1742, Neuchâtel) was a polymath and correspondent of Leibniz who wrote on archaeology, geology, philosophy, Biblical scholarship and mathematics.[1]

Bourguet entered the College of Zurich in 1688. He became Professor of Philosophy and Mathematics at Neuchâtel in 1731. He tried to integrate Leibnizian philosophy with issues in natural philosophy.

Works

Lettres philosophiques sur la formation des sels et des crystaux, Amsterdam, 1729
Traité des petrifications, 1742

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References

Sloan, Phillip R. (2006), "Bourguet, Louis", in Haakonssen, Knud (ed.), The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy, 2, Cambridge University Press, p. 1153

External links

Works by or about Louis Bourguet in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
Lettres philosophiques sur la formation de sels et des crystaux (1729, French) - digital facsimile from Linda Hall Library
Traité des petrifications (1742, French) - digital facsimile from Linda Hall Library

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[1] Sloan, Phillip R. (2006), "Bourguet, Louis", in Haakonssen, Knud (ed.), The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy, 2, Cambridge University Press, p. 1153