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Article: Jean-Theophile Desaguliers: un Huguenot, philosophe et juriste, en politique.(Book Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- July 1, 2002
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Jean-Theophile Desaguliers: un Huguenot, philosophe et juriste, en politique. By PIERRE BOUTIN. (Les dix-huitiemes siecles, 38). Paris: Champion. 1999. 249 pp.
Jean-Theophile Desaguliers (1683-1744) left La Rochelle for England at an early age as part of the Huguenot diaspora and studied at Oxford. He entered the Royal Society in 1714, having presented a number of experiments, particularly on the physics of light and colour, to the Society in the previous year. In 1717 he was ordained in the Anglican Church. He was also, like a number of other scientists of the period, a mason. Indeed, one of the two texts on which Pierre Boutin's argument is based is Desaguliers's ...