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When l’Hôpital died in 1704, he was a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences. Bernard de Fontenelle was the secretary of the academy at that time and wrote a eulogy for l’Hôpital. Most of what little is known about l’Hôpital prior to 1690 comes from this document. This chapter contains the first English translation of the entire eulogy.
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This is a translation of Fontenelle’s Eulogy (Fontenelle 1708, pp. 116–145).
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Anne-Alexandre.
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Nicolas Malebranche.
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Fontenelle, Bernard de, Histoire du renouvellement de l’Académie royale des sciences, Boudot, Paris, 1708.
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Bradley, R.E., Petrilli, S.J., Sandifer, C.E. (2015). Fontenelle’s Eulogy for the Marquis de L’Hôpital. In: L’Hôpital's Analyse des infiniments petits. Science Networks. Historical Studies, vol 50. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17115-9_13
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