Glanville, Joseph

Japanese: グランビル（英語表記）Glanvill， Joseph

[Birth] 1636
[Died] 1680
English philosopher. Anglican theologian and clergyman. Influenced by H. More, he shared some views with the Cambridge Platonists. As a skeptic, he opposed uncertain theories of knowledge and nature, and defended experimental research in the early Royal Society. His major works include Vanity of Dogmatizing (1661), Scepsis Scientifica; or Confest Ignorance, and the Way to Science (65).

Granville
Grandville

Born: September 13, 1803, Nancy
[Died] March 17, 1847. French printmaker in Paris. His real name was Jean-Ignace-Isidore Gérard. He learned painting from his father, who was a painter of miniatures (small portraits). He went to Paris at the age of 21, and published his first collection of prints, "The Good Citizen Sunday," in the same year. Since then, he has produced many prints that combine his unique satire and humor. He also illustrated many works, including La Fontaine's "Fables" and "Gulliver's Travels," and played an important role in the development of graphic art in the 19th century.

Granville
Grainville, Patrick

Born June 1, 1947. Villers French novelist. A new type of writer who emerged in the 1970s. After three works that he himself called "mythical autobiographies" - La Toison (1972), La Lisière (1973), and L'Abîme (1974), he won the Prix Goncourt for Les Flamboyants (1976), a fantasy work depicting a violent and wild world with a mad African king as its protagonist.

Granville
Granville

A port town in the Manche department in northwestern France. It is located on Pointe Roque overlooking the Bay of Saint-Malo, on the southern west coast of the Cotentin Peninsula. It is one of the famous bathing beaches in Normandy. It is also used as a yacht harbor, with a port for sightseeing and ferry boats to Chaussée Island and the British island of Jersey. Shipbuilding industry, population 12,326 (1982).

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Japanese:

[生]1636
[没]1680
イギリスの哲学者。イギリス国教会の神学者，牧師。 H.モアの影響を受け，ケンブリッジ・プラトニストたちと共通の見解をいくつか有した。懐疑論者として知識や自然に関する不確実な理論に反対し，初期のロイヤル・ソサエティにおける実験的研究を擁護した。主著『独断論の虚しさ』 Vanity of Dogmatizing (1661) ，『科学的な懐疑，あるいは無知の告白こそが科学への道』 Scepsis Scientifica; or Confest Ignorance，the Way to Science (65) 。

グランビル
Grandville

[生]1803.9.13. ナンシー
[没]1847.3.17. パリ
フランスの版画家。本名 Jean-Ignace-Isidore Gérard。ミニアチュール (小型肖像画) 画家であった父について絵を学ぶ。 21歳でパリにおもむき，この年に最初の版画集『良き市民の日曜日』を出版，以後独特の風刺とユーモアを交えた数多くの版画を発表。またラ・フォンテーヌの『寓話詩』をはじめ『ガリバー旅行記』など多くの挿絵を描き，19世紀のグラフィック・アートの発展に重要な位置を占めた。

グランビル
Grainville， Patrick

[生]1947.6.1. ビレール
フランスの小説家。 1970年代に登場した新しい作家。みずから「神話的自伝」と呼ぶ3作，『羊毛』 La Toison (1972) ，『境界』 La Lisière (73) ，『深湖』L'Abîme (74) ののち，アフリカの狂気の王を主人公に，狂暴で野性的な世界を描いた幻想的作品『火炎樹』 Les Flamboyants (76) によってゴンクール賞を獲得した。