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Lambert Daneau (c. 1530 – c. 1590) was a French jurist and Calvinist theologian.
He went to Geneva first in 1560, and studied at the Genevan Academy. He then became a pastor in Gien. After eight fruitful further years in Geneva from 1572, he made a reputation as preacher and theological writer. He left for a position in the University of Leiden. He taught also in Ghent, Orthez, Lescar, and Castres.Donald K. McKim, David F. Wright, Encyclopedia of the Reformed Faith (1992), p. 95.
Daneau wrote a book on witchcraft in French, "Les sorciers"(1574) that was translated into Latin the following year as Dialogus de veneficiis (1575) and into English by Thomas Twyne as A Dialogue of Witches (1575). His writing on the topic of witchcraft caused trouble for him in Leiden.
His Physica christiana (1576) argued for a Scriptural basis for physics. It was translated by Twyne as The Wonderfull Workmanship of the World (1578).Christopher B. Kaiser, Creational Theology and the History of Physical Science: The Creationist Tradition from Basil to Bohr (1997), note p. 165.
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