Louis Bourguet (23 April 1678, Nîmes – 31 December 1742, Neuchâtel) was a

polymath A polymath ( el, πολυμαθής, , "having learned much"; la, homo universalis, "universal human") is an individual whose knowledge spans a substantial number of subjects, known to draw on complex bodies of knowledge to solve specific pro ...

and correspondent of

Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm (von) Leibniz . ( – 14 November 1716) was a German polymath active as a mathematician, philosopher, scientist and diplomat. He is one of the most prominent figures in both the history of philosophy and the history of ma ...

who wrote on archaeology, geology, philosophy, Biblical scholarship and mathematics. Bourguet entered the College of Zurich in 1688. He became Professor of Philosophy and Mathematics at Neuchâtel in 1731. He tried to integrate Leibnizian philosophy with issues in natural philosophy.

Works

* *''Traité des petrifications'', 1742

References

External links

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''Lettres philosophiques sur la formation de sels et des crystaux''
(1729, French) - digital facsimile from

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''Traité des petrifications''
(1742, French) - digital facsimile from

1678 births 1742 deaths French archaeologists French geologists {{geologist-stub