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Micromégas

work by Voltaire

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discussed in biography

  • Voltaire
    In Voltaire: Life with Mme du Châtelet

    Micromégas (1752) measures the littleness of man in the cosmic scale. Vision de Babouc (1748) and Memnon (1749) dispute the philosophic optimism of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Alexander Pope. Zadig (1747) is a kind of allegorical autobiography: like Voltaire, the Babylonian

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role of Fontenelle

  • Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier, sieur de
    In Bernard Le Bovier, sieur de Fontenelle

    …who mocked him in his Micromégas (1752), a dissertation on the smallness of man in relation to the cosmos. Fontenelle’s most original contribution was in his approach to historiography, shown in his De l’origine des fables (1724; “Of the Origin of Fables”), in which he supports the theory that similar…

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