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Authorised form of nameCoste; Pierre (1668 - 1747)
Other forms of namePeter
Dates1668 - 1747
NationalityFrench
Place of birthUzes, France
Date of birth27 October 1668
Place of deathParis, France
Date of death24 January 1747
ActivityCareer:
Went to Geneva after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, then to Lausanne and Zurich, and finally Leyden where he met John Locke; worked as a translator and proof-corrector; went to England to stay with Locke (1697); translated Locke's 'Essay on human understanding'; Tutor to the sons of Edward Coste MP, of Chipley, Somerset; Tutor to John Hobart, and to Ashley Cooper, son of the 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury; went to Paris (c1735); returned to England after his wife's death
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election25/11/1742
RelationshipsSon of a woollen cloth merchant; married (1735, in Paris)
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
References:
J A Lohne, 'Experimentum Crucis' in NR 1968 vol 23 pp 169-199
CodeNA8184
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1742/19Coste, Pierre: certificate of election to the Royal Society25 November 1742
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