Jean-Baptiste du Hamel

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Jean-Baptiste du Hamel (11 June 16246 August 1706) was a notable French natural philosopher of the later seventeenth century, and secretary of the Academie Royale des Sciences. Among Du Hamel's prolific publications were the following:

  • De Meteoris et fossilibus (Paris, 1660)
  • De consensu Veteris et Novae Philosophiae (Paris, 1663)
  • De Corporis affectionibus (Paris, 1670)
  • De mente humana (On the human mind, 1672), an account of the workings of the human mind developing the principles of Aristotelian logic and Baconian natural philosophy.