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Henri Decremps

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Henri Decremps (April 1, 1746 - 1826) was a French lawyer and mathematician of the eighteenth century.

Decremps, after studying law and mathematics, began a diplomatic career at the Embassy of France in England. Thereafter he devoted himself to the unmasking of the "magicians" and the charlatans who cheated or deceived people for profit.

Bibliography

  • La Magie Blanche Dévoilée, Henri Decremps, Parigi, 1783 (1784).
  • Supplément à la Magie Blanche Dévoilée, Henri Decremps, Parigi, 1785.
  • Testament de Jérôme Sharp, Professeur de Physique amusante, Henri Decremps, Parigi, 1786.
  • Le Parisien à Londres, ou Avis aux Français qui vont en Angleterre, contenant le parallèle des deux plus grandes villes de l’Europe, Amsterdam et Paris, Henri Decremps, Parigi, 1784, 2 vol. (1789).
  • Codicile de Jérôme Sharp, Henri Decremps, Parigi, 1788.
  • La science sans-culotisée. Premier essai sur les moyens de faciliter l’étude de l’astronomie et d’opérer une révolution dans l’enseignement, Henri Decremps, Parigi, 1794.
  • Les petites aventures de Jérôme Sharp, Henri Decremps, Bruxelles e Liège, 1798.
  • Diagrammes chimiques, ou Recueil de 360 figures qui expliquent succinctement les expériences par l’indication des agents et des produits à côté de l’appareil, et qui rendent sensible la théorie des phénomènes', Henri Decremps, Parigi, 1822.


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