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Jean-Baptiste Pérès
Jean-Baptiste Pérès (1752 - 1840) was a French physicist best known for his 1827 pamphlet Grand Erratum - a polemical satire, translated into many European languages, that attempted "in the interest of conservative theology, to reduce to an absurdity the purely negative tendencies of the rationalistic criticism of the Scriptures then in vogue" (as The Princeton Theological Review described what it called "the celebrated pamphlet" in 1906 Frederick W. Loetscher, Review of "The Napoleon Myth" by Henry Ridgley Evans, The Princeton Theological Review, p144, Vol.
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