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Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes

Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle · 1686

Original text in French. In English: Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds.

A philosopher explains to a marquise, over evenings in the garden, that the Earth is not the centre of the world.

Essay · 8 parts · about 37 000 words · about 2 h 41 of reading

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Contents

  1. Préface7 min
  2. À Monsieur L…2 min
  3. Premier soir28 min
  4. Second soir27 min
  5. Troisieme soir26 min
  6. Quatrieme soir27 min
  7. Cinquieme soir24 min
  8. Sixieme soir21 min

About this text

Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle († 1757): public-domain work. The text is that of Wikisource (Leroy, Lyon, 1800). Its transcription, by Wikisource volunteers (contribution history), is published under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence; so are this reading page and the EPUB file. Erostrate has not changed a single word: only the layout and the division into pages are ours.

Note on the edition (in French): Texte de l'édition de Lyon (Leroy, 1800), qui donne les six soirs.

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