A report on François Bernier
French physician and traveller.
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Race (human categorization)
1 linksCategorization of humans based on shared physical or social qualities into groups generally viewed as distinct within a given society.
Categorization of humans based on shared physical or social qualities into groups generally viewed as distinct within a given society.
The first post-Graeco-Roman published classification of humans into distinct races seems to be François Bernier's Nouvelle division de la terre par les différents espèces ou races qui l'habitent ("New division of Earth by the different species or races which inhabit it"), published in 1684.
Scientific racism
1 linksPseudoscientific belief that empirical evidence exists to support or justify racism , racial inferiority, or racial superiority.
Pseudoscientific belief that empirical evidence exists to support or justify racism , racial inferiority, or racial superiority.
François Bernier (1620–1688) was a French physician and traveller.
Pierre Gassendi
0 linksFrench philosopher, Catholic priest, astronomer, and mathematician.
French philosopher, Catholic priest, astronomer, and mathematician.
He travelled in the south of France, in the company of his protégé, aide and secretary François Bernier, another pupil from Paris.
Aurangzeb
0 linksThe sixth emperor of the Mughal Empire, ruling from July 1658 until his death in 1707.
The sixth emperor of the Mughal Empire, ruling from July 1658 until his death in 1707.
François Bernier, the personal physician to Aurangzeb, observed versatile Mughal gun-carriages each drawn by two horses.
Marguerite de la Sablière
0 linksFrench salonist and polymath, friend and patron of Jean de La Fontaine, was the wife of Antoine Rambouillet, sieur de la Sablière (1624–1679), a Protestant financier and poet entrusted with the administration of the royal estates, her maiden name being Marguerite Hessein.
French salonist and polymath, friend and patron of Jean de La Fontaine, was the wife of Antoine Rambouillet, sieur de la Sablière (1624–1679), a Protestant financier and poet entrusted with the administration of the royal estates, her maiden name being Marguerite Hessein.
Another friend and inmate of the house was the traveller and physician François Bernier, whose abridgment of the works of Gassendi was written for Mme de la Sablière.
François Pétis de la Croix
0 linksFrench orientalist.
French orientalist.
Despite the flourishing of Orientalism in France in the 17th century, and despite the fact that Antoine Galland, Barthélemy d'Herbelot de Molainville and François Pétis de la Croix at one time frequented the Wednesday afternoon discussions - les Mercuriales - of Gilles Ménage together, little has remained of the explicit and detailed references to the Masnavi or Sufism in general one could have expected from Pétis de la Croix - or François Bernier for that matter.