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Jean Le Pelletier

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1711

Jean Le Pelletier (000000001633-12-29-0000December 29, 1633 - 000000001711-08-31-0000August 31, 1711) was a French polygraph and alchemist.

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Biography

He was merchant and judge-consul in Rouen, but he was interested consecutively in painting, pedagogy, modern language, mathematics, architecture, astronomy, medicine and economy.

He was the author of several books on alchemistry and translated in French George Starkey's Pyrotechny asserted and illustrated. He wrote an Essay on Noah's ark.

He died in Rouen in 1711.

Works

  • Translation in French of Gregorio Leti's Historia, e memorie recondite sopra alla vita de Oliviero Cromvele: detto il tiranno senza vizi, il prencipe senza virtù.
  • Translation in French of Gregorio Leti's Historia o vero vita di Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra: Detta per soprannome la Commediante Politica.
  • Dissertations sur l'arche de Noé et sur l'hémine et la livre de S. Benoist.
  • Starkey, George; Le Pelletier, Jean (1706). La pyrotecnie de Starkey, ou L'art de volatiliser les alcalis (in French). Rouen: Guillaume Behoult. 

    • References

    Jean Le Pelletier Wikipedia
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