Nicolas Fatio De Duillier (Q255237)
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* 1664, + 1753, Swiss, Mathematician (FRS), tutor, part of the French Prophets’ movement from 1706, Member of the Royal Society
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | Nicolas Fatio De Duillier |
* 1664, + 1753, Swiss, Mathematician (FRS), tutor, part of the French Prophets’ movement from 1706, Member of the Royal Society |
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16 February 1664Gregorian
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26 February 1664Julian
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10 May 1753Gregorian
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Education: home-educated; academy at Geneva 1678-1680; fellow of the Royal Society 1688
Patrons: limited patronage from several prominent whig politicians, notably John Hampden, as a result of his services to the house of Orange; Isaac Newton - professional and financial support; the duke of Bedford; sought (in vain) royal patronage for his work on navigation
Periodicals etc.: article in the Bibliothèque Universelle et Historique in April 1687; a letter on the solid of least resistance published in the Royal Society's Philosophical Transactions in 1713; published a series of articles in the Present State of the Republick of Letters and GM [as Faccio] on the proper interpretation of the poetry of the Psalms and their translation, 1736; GM (a series of letters from Fatio about his ideas in astronomy), 1737-8
Overall: Fatio was a natural philosopher and mathematician who worked closely with Newton. He published a number of scientific articles, as well as pieces on prophecies. He has one Latin poem, and published translations of psalms in GM. Throughout his career, he sought patronage form royalty and others.
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