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Noël, Étienne (1581–1659)

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2016

Thomas M. Lennon
Affiliation:
University of Western Ontario
Lawrence Nolan
Affiliation:
California State University, Long Beach
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Noël was born in Lorraine. He taught at La Flèche, where he later spent his last days, and was later rector of the Jesuit Collège de Clermont in Paris, when, in 1646, he sent to Descartes copies of his Aphorismi physici, and his Flamma, seu tractatus de sole ut flamma est, ejusque pabulo, along with assurances of friendship and esteem. He was an Aristotelian but of the novantique sort that tried to find common ground between the new philosophy and the old. In particular, he agreed with Descartes’ views on barometric phenomena; he debated with Pascal the possibility of a vacuum, defending the view of both Descartes and the Aristotelians that there is none.

See also Jesuit; Pascal, Blaise; Vacuum

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Print publication year: 2015

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Noël, Étienne. 1648a. Le plein du vuide, ou Le corps dont le vuide apparent des expériences nouvelles est rempli.Paris.Google Scholar
Noël, Étienne. 1648b. Gravitas comparata, seu Comparatio gravitatis aëris cum hydrargyri gravitate. Paris.Google Scholar
Noël, Étienne. 1648c. Physica vetus et nova. Paris.Google Scholar
Noël, Étienne. 1646. Aphorismi physici, seu Physicae peripateticae principia breviter ac dilucide proposita. La Flèche.Google Scholar
Baillet, Adrien. 1691. La vie de Monsieur Descartes. Paris (reprint, Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1972).Google Scholar
Gaukroger, Stephen. 1995. Descartes: An Intellectual Biography. Oxford: Clarendon Press.Google Scholar
Hoefer, Jean Chrétien Ferdinand. 1863. Nouvelle biographie générale.Paris.Google Scholar

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