Jean Banières was an 18th-century French physicist and philosopher.[1]
A zealous Cartesian, he was sceptical about Voltaire's Newtonian theories on light and colours.[2]
Works edit
- Traité phisique, de la lumiere et des couleurs, du son et des différens tons (in French). Paris: Mazieres & J. B. Garnier. 1737.
- Examen et réfutation des Elemens de la philosophie de Neuton de M. De Voltaire (in French). Paris: Jacques Lambert. 1739.
References edit
- ^ "Banières, Jean". CERL Thesaurus.
- ^ J. B. Shank (2008). The Newton Wars and the Beginning of the French Enlightenment. University of Chicago Press. p. 397. ISBN 978-0-226-74947-1.