Jean Le Pelletier ( – ) was a French

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and

alchemist Alchemy (from the Arabic word , ) is an ancient branch of natural philosophy, a philosophical and protoscientific tradition that was historically practised in China, India, the Muslim world, and Europe. In its Western form, alchemy is first ...

Biography

Le Pelletier was a merchant and a judge-

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Rouen Rouen (, ; or ) is a city on the River Seine, in northwestern France. It is in the prefecture of Regions of France, region of Normandy (administrative region), Normandy and the Departments of France, department of Seine-Maritime. Formerly one ...

, 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 George Starkey (1628–1665) was a Colonial American alchemist, medical practitioner, and writer of numerous commentaries and chemical treatises that were widely circulated in Western Europe and influenced prominent men of science, including Robe ...

's ''Pyrotechny asserted and illustrated''. He wrote an ''Essay on Noah's ark''. Le Pelletier died in

in 1711.

Quotation

Jean Le Pelletier is quoted by

Gaston Bachelard Gaston Bachelard (; ; 27 June 1884 – 16 October 1962) was a French philosopher. He made contributions in the fields of poetics and the philosophy of science. To the latter, he introduced the concepts of ''epistemological obstacle'' and ''Epist ...

in his book ''The Formation of the Scientific Mind'' (''La formation de l'esprit scientifique'').

Works

* Translation in French of

Gregorio Leti Gregorio Leti (29 May 1630 – 9 June 1701) was an Italian historian and satirist from Milan, who sometimes published under the pseudonym Abbe Gualdi, L'abbé Gualdi, or Gualdus known for his works about the Catholic Church, especially the papa ...

'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 ''Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra'' (; ''Elizabeth, Queen of England'') is a ''dramma per musica'' or opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to a libretto by Giovanni Schmidt, from the play ''Il paggio di Leicester'' (''Leicester's Page'') by ...

: Detta per soprannome la Commediante Politica''. * Dissertations sur l'arche de Noé et sur l'hémine et la livre de S. Benoist. *

References

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