title: Jean Banières
text: # Jean Banières
  
  Jean Banières was an 18th-century French physicist and philosopher.
  
  A zealous Cartesian, he was sceptical about Voltaire's Newtonian theories on light and colours.
  
  ## Works
  
  * Traité phisique, de la lumiere et des couleurs, du son et des différens tons (in French). Paris: Mazieres & J. B. Garnier. 1737.
  * Examen et réfutation des Elemens de la philosophie de Neuton de M. De Voltaire (in French). Paris: Jacques Lambert. 1739.
  