Jean-Baptiste Of Hamel - SpeedyLook encyclopedia

Biography

Wire of Nicolas Of Hamel, lawyer with Vire, it began its studies with Caen and finished its philosophy in Paris. In 1642, old only eighteen years, it published an explanation of the Sphériques of Théodose of Tripoli, to which it added a treaty of Trigonométrie. The following year, it entered the Congrégation of the Oratory, which it left ten years later to take the load of the parish of Neuilly-sur-Marne. Physics was then stripped of all that could make it interesting and presented only sterile and thorny questions. Of Hamel undertook to give it on a better foot while publishing its physical Astronomie and Of the meteors and the fossils in 1659. It left this station in 1663 to become chancellor of the church of Bayeux. When Colbert founded the Academy of Science in 1666, it named Of Hamel first secretary of it, place which it occupied until in 1697. He was professor of Greek and Latin philosophy to the royal Collège when he resigned and was, on his own recommendation, replaced by Fontenelle. In 1668, it accompanied the brother by Colbert, the marquis de Croissy, initially with Aachen for the peace negotiations and thereafter in England, where it came into contact with the scientists more in sight, in particular the physicist Boyle.

In the choice of its opinions, Of Hamel is proof of the greatest impartiality and the best judgment. Its admiration for empirical science does not make him scorn the speculations of its predecessors, but it examines and critical carefully the two aspects, tries to reconcile them and, if it is judged some able, gives its own opinion. Brucker, in its history of philosophy, calls it “ to vir and judicii laude clarissimus and doctrinæ copied celeberrimus ”. Fontenelle rents the nobility and the impartiality of her character; its charity that, he says, it would have too often exerted not to be known, taking all its care to be dissimulated; its humility, which was not only on its lips, but was a feeling which was based on science itself.

Works

Philosophia moralis christiana (Angers, 1652)
Astronomia physica (Paris, 1659)
Of meteoris and fossilibus (Paris, 1659)
Of consensu veteris and novæ philosophiæ (Paris, 1663)
Of corporum affectionibus (Paris, 1670)
Of lies humanā (Paris, 1672)
Of corpore animato (Paris, 1673)
Philosophia vetus and nova AD usum scholae accommodata , composed on the order of Colbert like handbook for the colleges and often republished (1678)
Theologia speculatrix and practica juxta S.S. Patrum dogmata pertractata, and AD usum scholae accommodata (7 volumes, Paris, 1690), republished in the form of unabrégé in five volumes to be used like handbook in the seminars (Paris, 1694)
Regiae Scientiarum Academiae historia , history of the Academy of Science, in Latin (1698; 1701)
Institutiones biblica; seu Scriptura; Sacrae prolegomena una cum selectis annotationibus in Pentateuchum , where the questions of the authority, the integrity are examined and of the inspiration of the Bible, the value of the Hebraic text and its translations, the style and the method for the biblical interpretation, geography and the chronology (Paris, 1698)
Psaumes (1701)
Livres of Solomon (1703)
Sapience (1703)
Ecclésiaste (1703)
Biblia crowned Vulgatæ editionis , with introduction, notes, chronological, historical and geographical tables (Paris, 1705)

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