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Bernard le Bovier de Fontanelle. Line engraving by T. Cook after P. Savart.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontanelle. Stipple engraving by J. Condé, 1793.

Philosophers and writers: twenty portraits. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1825.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontanelle. Line engraving by J. Corner, 1794, after P. Savart.

Nicolas L'Émery nell'"Éloge" di Fontenelle / Patrizia Catellani, Renzo Console.

Fontenelle as a popularizer of science : (with a version of his Dialogues of medico-historical interest) / F.H. Garrison.

Science and humanism in the French enlightenment / Aram Vartanian ; introduction by Lester G. Crocker.

A week's conversation on the plurality of worlds. To which is prefixed, a memoir of the author's life and writings / by M. de Voltaire.

Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes [of I-VI, with 'Description d'un sphère armillaire'] / [Fontenelle (Bernard Le Bovier)].

A week's conversation on the plurality of worlds / by Monsieur de Fontenelle ; translated by Mrs. A. Behn, Mr. J. Glanvil, John Hughes Esq. and William Gardner Esq. To which is added, Mr. Addison's defence on the Newtonian philosophy.

Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes [I-VI] / par Fontenelle; Précédés de l'Astronomie des dames par J. de Lalande.

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Fontenelle, M. de (Bernard Le Bovier), 1657-1757

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A week's conversation on the plurality of worlds. To which is prefixed, a memoir of the author's life and writings / by M. de Voltaire.

Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes [of I-VI, with 'Description d'un sphère armillaire'] / [Fontenelle (Bernard Le Bovier)].

A week's conversation on the plurality of worlds / by Monsieur de Fontenelle ; translated by Mrs. A. Behn, Mr. J. Glanvil, John Hughes Esq. and William Gardner Esq. To which is added, Mr. Addison's defence on the Newtonian philosophy.

Fontenelle as a popularizer of science : (with a version of his Dialogues of medico-historical interest) / F.H. Garrison.

Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes [I-VI] / par Fontenelle; Précédés de l'Astronomie des dames par J. de Lalande.