Jean Baptiste van Helmont

Henri de Boulainvilliers (French: [aʁi d(ə) bulɛ̃vilje]; 21 October 1658, Saint-Saire, Province of Normandy – 23 January 1722, Paris) was a French nobleman, writer and historian. He was educated at the College of Juilly; he served in the army until 1697. Primarily remembered as an early modern historian of France, Boulainvilliers also published an early French translation of Spinoza's Ethics and wrote on topics as diverse as astrology, physics, philosophy and theology. His theory that French nob…