Noël-Antoine Pluche, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Noël-Antoine Pluche

French naturalist

Date of Birth: 13-Nov-1688

Place of Birth: Reims, Grand Est, France

Date of Death: 19-Nov-1761

Profession: naturalist, writer, biologist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Noël-Antoine Pluche (13 November 1688 – 19 November 1761), known as the abbé Pluche, was a French priest.
He is now known for his Spectacle de la nature, a most popular work of natural history. Pluche, son of a baker, was born in Reims, in a street now named after him.
He became a teacher of rhetoric.
The Bishop of Laon made him head of the town's college, a post he accepted to escape judicial consequences of opposing the papal bull Unigenitus (1713) He withdrew in 1749 to La Varenne-Saint-Maur, near Paris, where he died. His Spectacle de la nature, ou Entretiens sur les particularités de l'Histoire naturelle qui ont paru les plus propres à rendre les jeunes gens curieux et à leur former l'esprit was published in nine volumes 1732–1742, and widely translated all over Europe.
Although it influenced many to become naturalists, it was a work of popularization, not of science. Other works were Histoire du ciel considéré selon les idées des poètes, des philosophes et de Moïse, où l'on fait voir : 1° l'origine du ciel poétique, 2° la méprise des philosophes sur la fabrique du ciel et de la terre, 3° la conformité de l'expérience avec la seule physique de Moïse (1739) De Linguarum artificio et doctrina (1751) Concorde de la géographie des différens âges (1764) Lettre sur la sainte ampoule et sur le sacre de nos Rois à Reims.
(1775)

Louis-Jacques Cathelin (1738–1804)
Alternative names	Louis Jacques Cathelin; Cathelin; M. Cathelin
Description	French engraver
Date of birth/death	1738	1804
Location of birth/death	Paris	Paris
Work location	Paris
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After Nicholas Blakey (–1758)
Alternative names	N. Blakey; Nicholas Blakay; Blackei; Blackey; Blakey
Description	Irish drawer and engraver Irish draughtsman and engraver
Date of birth/death		1758
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