# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edmond-pourchot
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:33:23.574Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edmond-pourchot"
name: "Edmond Pourchot"
slug: "edmond-pourchot"
description: "Edmond Pourchot was a university professor noted for his controversial advocacy of Cartesianism in place of Aristotelianism. The change within the University of Paris from Aristotelianism to Cartesianism during the 1690s was important in the history of the development of natural philosophy in France and continental Europe."
tagline: "French physicist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Edme_Pourchot.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1651"
deathDate: "1734-06-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.9
  momentum:             2.03125
  historical:           4.136105333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmond_Pourchot"
    title: "Edmond Pourchot"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmond_Pourchot"
    title: "Edmond Pourchot"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edme_Pourchot"
    title: "Edme Pourchot"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmond_Pourchot"
    title: "Edmond Pourchot"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump