Jacques Alexandre Le Tenneur
Jacques-Alexandre Le Tenneur (1604 - 1659) was a French mathematician who defended Galileo Galilei’s ideas. He corresponded with fellow mathematicians such as Pierre Gassendi, Pierre Hérigone and Marin Mersenne. It is unclear when or where he died but he probably lived from 1610 to 1660. Biography Not much is known about Le Tenneur’s personal life and most information comes from his letters to Mersenne and Garrendi. He was mostly self-educated during his early life in Paris. By 1646 he spent a little time in Clermont in the Auvergne region of central France. and then returned to settle in Paris. Politics and background In 1651 he became King Louis XIV’s counsellor to the provincial senate of the old French province of Guyenne in Bordeaux. A civil war in France called the Fronde was going on at this time and involved Guyenne so Le Tenneur was probably involved with the political feuding of the civil war. Support of Galileo Le Tenneur was one of the few French scholar ...
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