Category:Melchisédech Thévenot

**Melchisédech Thévenot**
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Name in native language	Melchisédech Thévenot;
Date of birth	1620; Paris
Date of death	29 October 1692; Issy-les-Moulineaux
Country of citizenship	France;
Occupation	cartographer; librarian; diplomat; writer; physicist;
Member of	French Academy of Sciences (–1685);
Native language	French;
Relative	Jean de Thévenot (nephew);
Award received	International Swimming Hall of Fame (1990);
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Melchisédech (or Melchisédec) Thévenot (c. 1620–1692) was a French author, scientist, traveler, cartographer, orientalist, inventor, and diplomat. He was the inventor of the spirit level and is also famous for his popular 1696 book The Art of Swimming, one of the first books on the subject and widely read during the 18th century (Benjamin Franklin, an avid swimmer in his youth, is known to have read it). The book popularized the breaststroke (see History of swimming). He also influenced the founding of the Académie Royale des Sciences (the French Academy of Sciences).