Jean-Baptiste du Hamel

Jean-Baptiste Du Hamel
Jean-Baptiste Du Hamel, detail from Testelin
Born	(1624-06-11)11 June 1624 Vire, now Calvados, France
Died	6 August 1706(1706-08-06) (aged 82) Paris
Other names	Jean-Baptiste Duhamel, Jean-Baptiste du Hamel
Education	Caen
Known for	Les Sphériques de Théodose (1642)
Scientific career
Fields	Natural philosophy (physics)
Institutions	Parish of Neuilly-sur-Marne; church of Bayeux
Patrons	Hardouin de Péréfixe, Jean-Baptiste Colbert

Jean-Baptiste Du Hamel, Duhamel or du Hamel (11 June 1624 – 6 August 1706) was a French cleric and natural philosopher of the late seventeenth century, and the first secretary of the Academie Royale des Sciences. As its first secretary, he influenced the initial work of the Académie, but his legacy and influence on the Académie and the growth of science in France is mixed.