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Residence
  
France

Known for
  
Parallelogram of force

Role
  
Mathematician

Nationality
  
French

Name
  
Bernard Lamy

Fields
  
Mathematics

Bernard Lamy wwwhistorymcsstandacukBigPicturesLamyjpeg
Born
  
15 June 1640Le Mans (
1640-06-15
)

Institutions
  
College of Juilly, University of Angers

Died
  
January 29, 1715, Rouen, France

Books
  
Perspective Made Easie: Or, the Art of Representing All Manner of Objects as They Appear to the Eye in All Scituations [sic]. ... Illustrated with Above Fifty Figures ... Written Originally in French, by Bernard Lamy ... and Faithfully Translated Into English, by an Officer of Her Majesties Ordnance

Institution
  
College of Juilly, University of Angers

Engineering or Applied Mechanics Lami's Theorem (Part 02)


Bernard Lamy (15 June 1640, in Le Mans, France–29 January 1715, in Rouen, France) was a French Oratorian, mathematician and theologian.

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Life

After studying in Le Mans, he went to join the Maison d'Institution in Paris, and to Saumur thereafter. In 1658 he entered the congregation of the Oratory.

Lamy became professor of classics at Vendome in 1661, and at Juilly in 1663. He was ordained in 1667.

After teaching a few years at Le Mans he was appointed to a chair of philosophy in the University of Angers. Here his teaching was attacked on the ground that it was too exclusively Cartesian, and Rebous the rector obtained in 1675 from the state authorities a decree forbidding him to continue his lectures.

He was then sent by his superiors to Grenoble, where, thanks to the protection of Cardinal Le Camus, he again took up his courses of philosophy. In 1686 he returned to Paris, stopping at the seminary of Saint Magloire, and in 1689 he was sent to Rouen, where he spent the remainder of his days.

Works

His best known work is the Traite de Mecanique (1679), showing the parallelogram of force. He also wrote Traite de la grandeur en general (1680) and Les elements de geometrie (1685).

His writings are numerous and varied. Among them may be mentioned:

  • "La Rhetorique ou l'art de parler", (Paris, 1675, Rhetoric, or the art of speaking, English translation 1676) of this twenty editions were published.
  • "Apparatus ad Biblia Sacra", etc. (Grenoble, 1687), translated into French by order of the Bishop of Chalons under the title "Introduction a la lecture de l'Ecriture Sainte" (Lyons, 1689).
  • "Harmonia, sive Concordia quatuor Evangelistarum", a harmony or concordance of the Four Gospels (Paris, 1689). In this work he contends that John the Baptist was twice cast into prison, first in Jerusalem by order of the Sanhedrin, and later by Herod in Galilee. He maintains also that the Saviour and His Apostles did not eat the paschal lamb at the Last Supper, and that the Crucifixion occurred on the day on which the Jews celebrated the Passover. He considers Mary Magdalen, Mary the sister of Lazarus, and the sinner mentioned in Luke, vii, 37 sqq. to be one and the same person. These and other opinions involved him in controversy with Bulteau, pastor of Rouen, Jean Pienud, Le Nain de Tillemont, and others (see "Traite historique de l'ancienne Paque des Juifs", Paris, 1693).
  • "Apparatus Biblicus", which is a development of his introduction (Lyons, 1696; Jena, 1709; Amsterdam, 1710). It was translated into French by Abbe de Bellegarde (Paris, 1697) and by Abbe Boyer (Lyons, 1709). In this work he calls in question the historical character of the book of Tobias and book of Judith, and maintains that even after the Council of Trent a difference of authority should be recognized between the proto-canonical and deutero-canonical books of the Bible.
  • "Defense de l'ancien sentiment de l'Eglise latine touchant l'office de sainte Madeleine" (Rouen, Paris, 1697).
  • A volume of commentaries on his previous harmony of the Four Gospels (Paris, 1699).
  • A Latin treatise on the Ark of the Covenant (Paris, 1720), a posthumous work published by Pere Desmollets, who prefixed to the volume a biography of the author.

    • References

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