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Adam Smith, Francis Hutcheson, and David Hume were a more subdued lot than Voltaire, d'Alembert, and Diderot, but they left an intellectual legacy that has proven more durable and humane.
John Paul Rollert: The Great Infidel at 300 John Paul Rollert 2011
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As long ago as the late 18th century, the Frenchmen Jean le Rond d'Alembert and Joseph-Louis Lagrange recognised that the mathematical language needed to address time was very similar to that which described space.
Boing Boing 2009
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Adam Smith, Francis Hutcheson, and David Hume were a more subdued lot than Voltaire, d'Alembert, and Diderot, but they left an intellectual legacy that has proven more durable and humane.
John Paul Rollert: The Great Infidel at 300 John Paul Rollert 2011
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The first Encyclopedia is published (Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot, d'Alembert) (1751)
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The first Encyclopedia is published (Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot, d'Alembert) (1751)
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Adam Smith, Francis Hutcheson, and David Hume were a more subdued lot than Voltaire, d'Alembert, and Diderot, but they left an intellectual legacy that has proven more durable and humane.
John Paul Rollert: The Great Infidel at 300 John Paul Rollert 2011
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The first Encyclopedia is published (Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot, d'Alembert) (1751)
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Certainly d'Alembert, Herschel, Whewell, and Mill had written histories of science before Mach, but it was Mach who wrote critical history in the above sense.
Ernst Mach Pojman, Paul 2009
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Mis en ordre et publié par Diderot, quant à la partie mathématique, par d'Alembert. 35 vols.
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Monnoye, "L'Encaustique," in Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, ed. Denis Diderot and Jacques d'Alembert, (Paris, 1755), 5: 614 – 19.
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