Bernard Lamy

Lamy was born in Le Mans, France. After studying there, he went to join the Maison d'Institution in Paris, and to Saumur thereafter. In 1658 he entered the congregation of the Oratory.

Lamy became professor of classics at Vendôme in 1661, and at Juilly in 1663. He was ordained in 1667.

After teaching a few years at Le Mans he was appointed to a chair of philosophy in the University of Angers. Here his teaching was attacked on the ground that it was too exclusively Cartesian, and Rebous the rector obtained in 1675 from the state authorities a decree forbidding him to continue his lectures.

He was then sent by his superiors to Grenoble, where, thanks to the protection of Étienne Le Camus, he again took up his courses of philosophy. In 1686 he returned to Paris, stopping at the seminary of Saint Magloire, and in 1689 he was sent to Rouen, where he spent the remainder of his days to his death in 1715.

His best known work is the {{lang|fr|Traité de Mécanique}} (1679), showing the parallelogram of force. He also wrote {{lang|fr|Traité de la grandeur en general}} (1680) and {{lang|fr|Les éléments de géometrie}} (1685).

His writings are numerous and varied. Among them may be mentioned:

• {{lang|fr|La Rhétorique ou l'art de parler}}, (Paris, 1675); In English → (London, 1676) {{cite book |title=The Art of Speaking |url=https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_the-art-of-speaking-_lamy-bernard_1676/mode/2up?view=theater |publisher=Printed by William Godbid ({{space|1}}–1779); sold by Moses Pitt (c. 1639–1697), at the angel against the little north door of St. Paul's Church }} {{free access}} – of this, twenty editions were published.{{refn|group=lower-alpha|Translated in English in 1676; modern edition in 1986 by John Thomas Harwood, Phd.{{Sfn|Harwood,|1986|p=}} }}
• {{lang|la|Apparatus ad Biblia Sacra}}, etc. (Grenoble, 1687), translated into French by order of the Bishop of Châlons under the title {{lang|fr|Introduction a la lecture de l'Ecriture Sainte}} (Lyons, 1689).
• {{lang|la|Harmonia, sive Concordia quatuor Evangelistarum}} (Paris, 1689, A harmony or concordance of the Four Gospels). In this work he contends that John the Baptist was twice cast into prison, first in Jerusalem by order of the Sanhedrin, and later by Herod in Galilee. He maintains also that the Jesus and his Apostles did not eat the paschal lamb at the Last Supper, and that the Crucifixion occurred on the day on which the Jews celebrated the Passover. He considers Mary Magdalen, Mary the sister of Lazarus, and the sinner mentioned in Luke, vii, 37 sqq. to be one and the same person. These and other opinions involved him in controversy with Bulteau, pastor of Rouen, Jean Piénud, Le Nain de Tillemont, and others (see {{lang|fr|Traité historique de l'ancienne Pâque des Juifs}}, Paris, 1693).
• {{lang|la|Apparatus Biblicus}}, which is a development of his introduction (Lyons, 1696; Jena, 1709; Amsterdam, 1710). It was translated into French by Jean-Baptiste Morvan de Bellegarde (Paris, 1697) and by Boyer (Lyons, 1709). In this work he calls in question the historical character of the book of Tobias and book of Judith, and maintains that even after the Council of Trent a difference of authority should be recognized between the proto-canonical and deutero-canonical books of the Bible.
• {{lang|fr|Défense de l'ancien sentiment de l'Eglise latine touchant l'office de sainte Madeleine}} (Rouen, Paris, 1697).
• A volume of commentaries on his previous concordance of the four Gospels (Paris, 1699).
• A Latin treatise on the Ark of the Covenant (Paris, 1720), a posthumous work published by Desmollets, who prefixed to the volume a biography of the author.

• College of Juilly
• Lami's theorem
• List of Roman Catholic scientist-clerics

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• {{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|Girbal,|1964|p=}} |date=1964 |last1=Girbal |first1=François |title="Bernard Lamy (1640–1715), Étude biographique et bibliographique" |series=Series: The Movement of Ideas in the 17th Century |type=review |language=fr |location=París |publisher=PUF}} {{OCLC|703481847|703481847|1256348873}}, {{OCLC search link|163799237}}, {{OCLC search link|1418189051}}, {{OCLC search link|1203702866}}.

• {{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|Harwood,|1986|p=}} |date=1986 |orig-date=1676 |editor1-last=Harwood |editor1-first=John Thomas, PhD |title=The Rhetorics of Thomas Hobbes and Bernard Lamy |url=https://archive.org/details/rhetoricsofthoma0000unse/page/n5/mode/2up?view=theater |access-date=February 24, 2025 |url-access=registration |location=Carbondale |publisher=Southern Illinois University Press |lccn=85030448 |via=Internet Archive (Trent)}}

• {{cite book |last1=Ingold |first1=Augustin Marie Pierre (1852–1923) |author1-link=:d:Q16389286 |title=Essai de bibliographie {{nowrap|oratorienne :}} suivi du supplément |trans-title=Essay on Oratorian Bibliography: Followed by the Supplement |year=1880–1882 }} Retrieved February 24, 2025. {{OCLC|1675791}}.

1. {{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|Ingold,|1880–1882|p=64–70}} |date=1880–1882 |title=Essai de bibliographie oratorienne |url={{GBurl|sFNbAcAOWoEC|pg=PR3}} |location=Paris |publisher=A. Sauton éditeur, rue du Bac, 41. Poussielgue Frères, éditeur, rue Cassette, 15 |volume=5 |pages=64–70 |via=Google Books (BSB)}} {{free access}}
2. {{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|Ingold, Supplément, |1882|p=}} |date=1882 |title=Supplément |url={{GBurl|OLU9AQAAMAAJ|pg=PP5}} |location=Paris |publisher=G. Téqio, {{nowrap|Paris ;}} libraire {{nowrap|éditeur ;}} 85, rue de Rennes |via=Google Books (Minnesota)}} {{free access}} {{OCLC|864843127}}.

• {{cite book |last1=Lamy |first1=Bernard (1640–1715) |author1-link=Bernard Lamy |title=Apparatus Biblicus, sive Manuductio ad Sacram Scripturam, tum clarius, tum facilius intelligendam |trans-title=Biblical Apparatus, or A Guide to the Holy Scriptures, for a Clearer and Easier Understanding |language=la }}

1. {{cite book |date=1733 |title=Via Google Books |url={{GBurl|3mYoAAAAYAAJ|pg=PA5}} |location=Venice |edition=2nd Venetian |series=Based on the most recent Lyon edition, enlarged beyond previous ones: now for the first time, the author’s life summarized in a synopsis. With copperplate illustrations |publisher=Published by Lorenzo Basilio with the permission and privilege of the authorities |type=Harvard }} {{free access}} {{OCLC|794814388}}.

• {{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|Lamy,|1723|p=}} |date=1723 |last1=Lamy |first1=Bernard (1640–1715) |author1-link=Bernard Lamy |title=Apparatus Biblicus: Or; An Introduction to the Holy Scriptures |series=In Three Books:
  Book{{space|4}}I. Of the Origin, History, and Antiquities of the Jews
  Book{{space|3}}II. Of the Canon, Authors, Original Texts, Versions, Editions and Interpretations of the Scriptures.
  Book{{space|2}}III. Of the False Gods, Animals, Precious Stones, Diseases, and Publick Sports Mentioned in the Scripture.
  Together With the Explanation of Scripture Names, and
  A New Method of Reading the Scriptures,
  Done Into English From the French, With Notes and Additions.
  Illustrated with thirty copper-plates |others=
  Translated by Bernard Lamy (1640–1715) |location=London |publisher=Printed by S[amuel] Palmer }} Retrieved February 24, 2025.

1. {{cite book |date=1723 |title=Digitized copy via UCLA (Clark); Kirkleatham Library; CLUW (University of Wales, Lampeter); Thomas Cartwright (1671–1748) }}

1. {{cite book |date=1723 |title=Via Internet Archive |url=https://archive.org/details/apparatusbiblicu00lamy/page/n31/mode/2up?q=%22edward+cole%2C+m.d.%22&view=theater }} {{free access}}
2. {{cite book |title=Vie Wikimedia Commons |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apparatus_biblicus_-_or;_an_introduction_to_the_Holy_Scriptures._In_three_books_..._Done_into_English_from_the_French,_with_notes_and_additions._Illustrated_with_thirty_copper_plates_(IA_apparatusbiblicu00lamy).pdf }} {{free access}}
2. {{cite book |date=1723 |title=Via Internet Archive |url=https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_apparatus-biblicus-or-_lamy-bernard_1723/page/n1/mode/2up?view=theater |type=British Museum }} {{free access}}

• {{cite book |date=1891–1912 |editor1-last=Vigouroux |editor1-first=Fulcran Grégoire (1837–1915) |editor1-link=Fulcran Vigouroux |title="Regnier" (the entry), in {{nowrap|Dictionnaire de la Bible :}} contenant tous les noms de personnes, de lieux, de plantes, d'animaux mentionnés dans les saintes Écritures, les questions théologiques, archéologiques, scientifiques, critiques relatives à l'Ancien et au Nouveau Testament et des notices sur les commentateurs anciens et modernes |trans-title=Dictionary of the Bible: Containing All the Names of Persons, Places, Plants, and Animals Mentioned in the Holy Scriptures, Theological, Archaeological, Scientific, and Critical Questions Related to the Old and New Testament, and Entries on Ancient and Modern Commentators |type=5 Vols. |publisher=Edited by Vigouroux, Priest of Saint-Sulpice, with the collaboration of a large number of contributors }} Retrieved February 24, 2025. {{OCLC|1483937190|show=all}}.

1. {{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|Vigouroux, Vol. 4,|1908|p=}} |date=1908 |title=Vol. 4: "L–PA |url={{GBurl|Jv9JkDcH-vYC|pg=PP13}} |location=Paris |publisher={{ill|Letouzey et Ané|fr|Letouzey et Ané|display=1}}, publishers, 76 (second entrance), rue des Saints-Pères |type=Georgia }} {{free access}}

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