Ribald Classic: Letters Of Gallantry
April, 1977
Do Martians exist? Why is it so good to make love in France? Shall I revamp Greek dialectics? Isn't it time to laugh at the craze for the occult that is now so fashionable?Fontenelle considered and answered such questions before he was 30 and continued to write his lively, skeptical essays for the next 70 years. He did much to win general acceptance for the study of astronomy and the scientific method.Letters of Gallantry--108 of them in all--was published under the nom de plume Le Chevalier d'H...
