Published Works
Among du Hamel's prolific publications were the following:
- Les Sphériques de Théodose (1642)
- Philosophia moralis christiana (Angers, 1652);
- Astronomia physica (Paris, 1659);
- De Meteoris et fossilibus (Paris, 1660)
- De consensu veteris et novæ philosphiæ (Paris, 1663), a treatise on natural philosophy in which the Greek and scholastic theories are compared with those of Descartes;
- De Corporis affectionibus (Paris, 1670)
- De mente humana (On the human mind, 1672), an account of the workings of the human mind developing the principles of Aristotelian logic and Baconian natural philosophy.
- De corpore animato (Paris, 1673);
- Philosophia vetus et nova ad usum scholæ accommodata (Paris, 1678). This work, composed by order of Colbert as a textbook for colleges, ran through many editions.
- Theologia speculatrix et practica (7 vols., Paris, 1690), abridged in five volumes for use as a textbook in seminaries (Paris, 1694);
- Regiæ scientiarum Academiæ historia (Paris, 1698; enlarged edition, 1701);
- Institutiones biblicæ (Paris, 1698), in which are examined the questions of the authority, integrity, and inspiration of the Bible, the value of the Hebrew text and of its translations, the style and method of interpretation, Biblical geography, and chronology;
- Biblia sacra Vulgatæ editionis (Paris, 1705), with introductions, notes, chronological, historical, and geographical tables.
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