Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds in France and elsewhere, and was regularly published. In 1691, Fontenelle was elected to the Académie française. Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds () is a popular science book by French author Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, published in 1686. It offered an explanation of the heliocentric model of the Universe, suggested by Nicolaus Copernicus in his 1543 work "De revolutionibus orbium coelestium". The book is Fontenelle's most famous work and is considered to be one of the first major works of the Age of Enlightenment. Unlike many scientific works of its time, "Conversations
The Wretched of the Earth aspects of the violence and response to violence necessary for total decolonization. He also offers cautions about several different approaches to that violence. In the essay, "On National Culture" published in "The Wretched of the Earth", Fanon sets out to define how a national culture can emerge among the formerly and, at the time of its release in 1961, still-colonized nations of Africa. Rather than depending on an orientalized, fetishized understanding of precolonial history, Fanon argues a national culture should be built on the material resistance of a people against colonial domination. Fanon narrates the essay with reference to what