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    Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (category 1744 births)
    Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, chevalier de Lamarck (1 August 1744 – 18 December 1829), often known simply as Lamarck (/ləˈmɑːrk/; French: [ʒɑ̃batist...
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  • published two books, Instruction aux Princes de garder la foi promise and La Philosophie Chretienne. His work was translated into English by Edward Hoby and published...
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    résistance des fluides[permanent dead link] (1752) Essai sur les éléments de philosophie (1759) Nouvelles expériences sur la résistance des fluides (in French)...
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    Gassendi from Latin into French. Initial editions of Bernier's Abregé de la Philosophie de Gassendi were published in Paris in 1674 by the family Langlois and...
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  • Guillaume Imbert (category 1744 births)
    Guillaume Imbert de Boudeaux (1744 – 19 May 1803) was a French man of letters. Born in Limoges, Imbert was forced by his family to enter the Benedictine...
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  • Lettres a une Princesse d'Allernagne sur quelques sujets de physique et de philosophie (St Petersburg, 1768–1772, in 3 vols. octavo) Letters of Euler to a German...
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    Essai sur les hiéroglyphes des Égyptiens (category 1744 non-fiction books)
    Essai sur les hiéroglyphes des Égyptiens was a significant 1744 French translation of an English work on the history of writing. The Essai translated a...
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    inheritance. The idea is named after the French zoologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744–1829), who incorporated the classical era theory of soft inheritance into...
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    littérature, de philosophie, et d'histoire, 1730 Histoire d'un voyage litteraire fait en MDCCXXXIII en France, en Angleterre, et en Hollande, 1735 Camille...
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  • Sorbonne), History (Ecole d’histoire de la Sorbonne), Philosophy (UFR de Philosophie), Political Science (UFR de Science Politique) and part of the Economics...
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