Category:Melchisédech Thévenot

**Melchisédech Thévenot**
	scrittore, scienziato e orientalista francese
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Nome nella lingua madre	Melchisédech Thévenot;
Data di nascita	1620; Parigi
Data di morte	29 ottobre 1692; Issy-les-Moulineaux
Paese di cittadinanza	Francia;
Occupazione	cartografo; bibliotecario; diplomatico; scrittore; fisico;
Membro di	Accademia delle scienze francese (–1685);
Lingua madre	francese;
Parente	Jean de Thévenot (nipote);
Premio ricevuto	International Swimming Hall of Fame (1990);
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	Q956547; identificativo ISNI: 0000000110282804; identificativo VIAF: 125149066390465600931; identificativo GND: 117624519; identificativo della Biblioteca del Congresso: n50014413; identificativo BNF: 12512128n; identificativo idRef: 034357599; identificativo NLA: 35545539; identificativo NLI: 000224448; identificativo BNE: XX1533815; identificativo NTA: 070328366; identificativo BIBSYS: 14017227; identificativo J9U della Biblioteca nazionale israeliana: 987007307059305171; identificativo NACSIS-CAT: DA1157212X; identificativo SBN di un autore: UBOV455632; identificativo Open Library: OL4768877A; identificativo DBNL: thev001
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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).