Jean-Baptiste Pérès
FRENCH PHYSICIST
Jean-Baptiste Peres; Jean Baptiste Peres; Jean Baptiste Péres; Jean-Baptiste Péres; 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 Frederick W. Loetscher described what he called "the celebrated pamphlet" in The Princeton Theological Review 1906Frederick W.