# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/samuel-de-sorbiere
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:37:43.937Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/samuel-de-sorbiere"
name: "Samuel de Sorbiere"
slug: "samuel-de-sorbiere"
description: "Samuel (de) Sorbière was a French physician and man of letters, a philosopher and translator, who is best known for his promotion of the works of Thomas Hobbes and Pierre Gassendi, in whose view of physics he placed his support, though unable to refute René Descartes, but who developed a reputation in his own day for a truculent and disputatious nature. Sorbière is regarded often by his position on ethics and disclosure about medical mistakes. In 1672 Sorbière considered the idea of being honest and upfront about a mistake having been made in medicine but thought that it might seriously jeopardise medical practice and concluded that it \"would not catch on\"."
tagline: "French philosopher (1615-1670)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Samuel_Sorbiere.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1615-09-17"
deathDate: "1670-04-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.86
  momentum:             2.41852487135506
  historical:           6.537725333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B1%D1%8C%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BC%D1%8E%D1%8D%D0%BB%D1%8C"
    title: "Сорбьер, Самюэль"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%AF_%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "سامويل د سوربير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_de_Sorbi%C3%A8re"
    title: "Samuel de Sorbière"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_de_Sorbiere"
    title: "Samuel de Sorbiere"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Sorbi%C3%A8re"
    title: "Samuel Sorbière"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Sorbi%C3%A8re"
    title: "Samuel Sorbière"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Sorbi%C3%A8re"
    title: "Samuel Sorbière"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3471230"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump