Arnauld

Antoine Arnauld

Born: 6 Feb 1612 in Paris, France
Died: 6 Aug 1694 in Brussels, Spanish Netherlands (now Belgium)

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Ordained a priest, Arnauld received a doctorate in theology in 1641 but was expelled from the Sorbonne in 1643 for his Jansenist views. [A Jansenist is a follower of the heretical doctrine de-emphasizing free will and teaching that Christ did not die for all men.]

Arnauld preached against the Jesuits, spent most of his life in theological disputes and died in self-imposed exile in Brussels. Almost all his writings in the last part of his life were a consequence of his disagreements with Nicolas Malebranche.

Arnauld corresponded with Descartes and Leibniz, wrote on the theory of light (influenced by Pascal) and wrote on logic and on grammar.

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References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica
  3. J L Coolidge, The mathematics of the great amateurs (Oxford, 1949).
  4. K Bopp, Arnauld als mathematiker, Abhandlungen zur Geschichte der mathematischen Wissenschaften 14 (1902). 
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