Noël-Antoine Pluche (13 November 1688, Rheims-19 November 1761), La Varenne-Saint-Maur, near
ParisParis is the capital of France and the country's most populous city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
), known as the
abbé Pluche, was a French priest. He is now known for his
Spectacle de la nature, a most popular work of
natural historyNatural history is the scientific research of plants or animals, leaning more towards the observational than experimental methods of study, and encompasses more research that is published in magazines than in academic journals. Grouped among the natural sciences, Natural history is the systematic...
.
Pluche, son of a baker, was born in a street now named after him. He became a teacher of
rhetoricRhetoric is one of the arts of using language as a means to persuade. Along with grammar and logic or dialectic, rhetoric is one of the three ancient arts of discourse. From ancient Greece to the late 19th Century, it was a central part of Western education, filling the need to train public...
. The Bishop of Laon made him head of the town's college, a post he accepted to escape judicial consequences of opposing the
papal bullA Papal bull is a particular type of letters patent or charter issued by a pope. It is named after the bulla that was appended to the end to authenticate it....
UnigenitusUnigenitus , an apostolic constitution in the form of a papal bull promulgated by Pope Clement XI in 1713, opened the final phase of the Jansenist controversy in France...
(1713)
He withdrew in 1749 to La Varenne-Saint-Maur, where he died.
His
Spectacle de la nature, ou Entretiens sur les particularités de l'Histoire naturelle qui ont paru les plus propres à rendre les jeunes gens curieux et à leur former l'esprit was published in 1732, and widely translated all over Europe.
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Noël-Antoine Pluche (13 November 1688, Rheims-19 November 1761), La Varenne-Saint-Maur, near
ParisParis is the capital of France and the country's most populous city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
), known as the
abbé Pluche, was a French priest. He is now known for his
Spectacle de la nature, a most popular work of
natural historyNatural history is the scientific research of plants or animals, leaning more towards the observational than experimental methods of study, and encompasses more research that is published in magazines than in academic journals. Grouped among the natural sciences, Natural history is the systematic...
.
Pluche, son of a baker, was born in a street now named after him. He became a teacher of
rhetoricRhetoric is one of the arts of using language as a means to persuade. Along with grammar and logic or dialectic, rhetoric is one of the three ancient arts of discourse. From ancient Greece to the late 19th Century, it was a central part of Western education, filling the need to train public...
. The Bishop of Laon made him head of the town's college, a post he accepted to escape judicial consequences of opposing the
papal bullA Papal bull is a particular type of letters patent or charter issued by a pope. It is named after the bulla that was appended to the end to authenticate it....
UnigenitusUnigenitus , an apostolic constitution in the form of a papal bull promulgated by Pope Clement XI in 1713, opened the final phase of the Jansenist controversy in France...
(1713)
He withdrew in 1749 to La Varenne-Saint-Maur, where he died.
His
Spectacle de la nature, ou Entretiens sur les particularités de l'Histoire naturelle qui ont paru les plus propres à rendre les jeunes gens curieux et à leur former l'esprit was published in 1732, and widely translated all over Europe. Although it influenced many to become naturalists, it was a work of popularization, not of science.
Other works were
- Histoire du ciel considéré selon les idées des poètes, des philosophes et de Moïse, où l'on fait voir : 1° l'origine du ciel poétique, 2° la méprise des philosophes sur la fabrique du ciel et de la terre, 3° la conformité de l'expérience avec la seule physique de Moïse (1739)
- De Linguarum artificio et doctrina (1751)
- Concorde de la géographie des différens âges (1764)
- Lettre sur la sainte ampoule et sur le sacre de nos Rois à Reims. (1775)
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