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book ; and those who will think out what I have 

 formerly published will perhaps find that they already 

 have the means of making this answer. 



than as a philosopher. After travelling in Syria and Egypt, he 

 went to India (where he was physician to Aurungzebe), and 

 afterwards to Cashmir. In Paris he was nicknamed ' the Mogul.' 

 He assisted Boileau in preparing the Mock Decree, given in the hall 

 of Parnassus, in favour of the Masters of Arts, Physicians, and Professors of 

 the University of Stagira, in the land of chimeras, for the support of the 

 doctrine of Aristotle, which by its ridicule killed the serious proposal 

 that the French Parliament should officially condemn the philo- 

 sophy of Descartes. Bernier's principal philosophical works were 

 Abrege de la philosophic de Gassendi (8 vols., 1678) and, by way of 

 supplement to this, Doutes de M. Bernier sur quelques-uns des principaux 

 chapitres de son abrege de la philosophic de Gassendi (7 vols., 1684). The 

 latter is probably the work to which Leibniz refers. There is 

 an English translation of Bernier's Travels in the Mogul Empire (new 

 ed., Constable, 1897). 



