Henri Saint-Simon nsIn human physics, Henri Saint-Simon (1760-1825) (IQ:165|#387) (CR:14) was a French sociologist noted for his seven-year interaction and synergy with Auguste Comte during the formulation of Comte’s version (or possibly their version) of social physics. [1]

The interaction occurred sometime between 1817, when Saint-Simon gave Comte a position of secretary (at the École Polytechnique?), and the latter years of Saint-Simon’s existence, when he began to dissociate himself from Comte.

English sociologist Alan Swingewood claims that Saint-Simon coined the terms “social physiology” and “social physics”. [2]

Reference
1. (a) Hayek, Friedrich A. (1952). Studies on the Abuse and Decline of Reason,Volume 13 (editor: Bruce Caldwell) (ch. 13: Social Physics: Saint-Simon and Comte, pgs. 200-). University of Chicago Press, 2010.
(b) Sharma, Ragendra K. (1996). Fundamentals of Sociology (social physics, pg. 3-). Atlantic Publishers & Dist.
2. (a) Swingewood, Alan. (1998). “Industrialization and the Rise of Sociological Positivism”, in: Early Modern Social Theory (pg. 81), edited by Murray E.G. Smith. Canadian Scholars’ Press.
(b) Swingewood, Alan. (2000). A Short History of Sociological Thought (Saint-Simon coined “social physics”, pg. 13, Saint-Simon and Comte, 14-7). Palgrave MacMillan.

External links
● Henri de Saint-Simon – Wikipedia.

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