Family Name:

Jurain

First Name:

Henri

Birth Date:

1707

Birth Place:

Dijon

Death Date:

1771

Main places of activity:

Place	From	To
Reims	1749	1762

Personal info:

Career Jurain was a professor of mathematics in Reims from 1751 to 1764. He was also an active correspondent of the Académie des Sciences.

Translations

Original Title	Translation title	Author
Observations on Man, His Frame, His Duty, and His Expectations	Explication physique des sens, des idées et des mouvemens, tant volontaires qu'involontaires	David Hartley
A New Geographical and Historical Grammar, with a set of twenty-two Maps	Description générale de l'univers traduite de l'anglois de Salmons d'après la XVème édition donnée à Londres en 1768, revue, corrigée et augmentée par l'abbé Jurain	Thomas Salmon

Other Works

Title	Publication Year	Publisher	Author
La logique ou l'art de penser, dégagé de la servitude de la dialectique	1765	Desventes & Compagnie
Discours sur la vraie méthode de philosopher, prononcé dans la grande salle de l'hôtel de ville de Reims, le 21 décembre 1753	1754	Delaistre-Godet

Jurain translated from English to French.

Archives de l'Académie des sciences, Paris, (AAS)

Journal des sçavans, June 1756.

L'esprit des journaux, francais et etrangers, Weissenbruch, March 1777.

Observations on Man, His Frame, His Duty, and His Expectations
Translation Title: Explication physique des sens, des idées et des mouvemens, tant volontaires qu'involontaires
Original Author: David Hartley

Translation: Explication physique des sens, des idées et des mouvemens, tant volontaires qu'involontaires
Publisher: Delaistre-Godet
Pub. Place: Reims
Pub. Date: 1754
Lang: French
Note:
This translation, dedicated to Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, does not include the second part of the original work, which was dedicated to religious matters.

A New Geographical and Historical Grammar, with a set of twenty-two Maps
Translation Title: Description générale de l'univers traduite de l'anglois de Salmons d'après la XVème édition donnée à Londres en 1768, revue, corrigée et augmentée par l'abbé Jurain
Original Author: Thomas Salmon

Original title: A New Geographical and Historical Grammar, with a set of twenty-two Maps
Publ. Year From: 1748 to:
lang: English
Note:

Translation: Description générale de l'univers traduite de l'anglois de Salmons d'après la XVème édition donnée à Londres en 1768, revue, corrigée et augmentée par l'abbé Jurain
Pub. Place: Paris
Pub. Date: 1775
Lang: French
Note:
According to the title of this posthumously published translation, Jurain would have used the fifteenth edition of Salmon's work from 1768, but this edition does not seem to exist.

Jurain expanded the section on France, adding bits and pieces he wrote himself.

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