Category:Melchisédech Thévenot
Melchisédech (or Melchisédec) Thévenot (c. 1620–1692) was a French author, scientist, traveler, cartographer, orientalist, inventor, and diplomat. He was the inventor of the spirit level and is also famous for his popular 1696 book The Art of Swimming, one of the first books on the subject and widely read during the 18th century (Benjamin Franklin, an avid swimmer in his youth, is known to have read it). The book popularized the breaststroke (see History of swimming). He also influenced the founding of the Académie Royale des Sciences (the French Academy of Sciences).
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Date of birth | 1620 Paris | ||||
Date of death | 29 October 1692 Issy-les-Moulineaux | ||||
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Arabiae Desertae Pars - Patami Arabes - (Thevenot, 1660) - btv1b59001126 (1 of 2).jpg 10,408 × 5,704; 6.89 MB
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Marquette and jolliet map 1681 (rotated vertical).jpg 600 × 250; 69 KB
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Marquette and jolliet map 1681.jpg 2,056 × 860; 792 KB
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Melchisédech Thévenot Art de Nager.jpg 600 × 541; 50 KB
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Melchisédech Thévenot Voyages Table.jpg 1,157 × 1,860; 922 KB
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Portrait de Melchisedech Thevenot, en pied.png 821 × 1,323; 1.72 MB
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Thévenot, Melchisédech. Iter a Gaza ad montem Sinaï ex Brittembachio (1659-1661).jpg 1,332 × 1,758; 482 KB