• d'Alembert's Dream (or The Dream of d'Alembert, French: Le Rêve de d'Alembert) is an ensemble of three philosophical dialogues authored by Denis Diderot...
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    Encyclopédie. D'Alembert's formula for obtaining solutions to the wave equation is named after him. The wave equation is sometimes referred to as d'Alembert's equation...
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    Rêve d'Alembert (d'Alembert's Dream) (French and English texts) Archived 22 September 2016 at the Wayback Machine Conversation between D'Alembert and Diderot...
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    discusses the link between Freemason ideals and the enlightenment in D'Alembert's Dream, exploring masonry as a way of spreading enlightenment beliefs. Historian...
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  • d'Alembert's principle d'Alembert's theorem d'Alembert–Euler condition "Le rêve de D'Alembert" ("D'Alembert's Dream"), by Denis Diderot. D'Alembert's Principle, a...
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    protagonist of his controversial philosophical dialogues entitled D'Alembert's Dream. Although she had neither wealth nor rank and was not an outstanding...
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  • the Revolutionary Upheavals on the Surface of the Earth Diderot, D’Alembert's Dream Diderot, Rameau's Nephew Descartes, Discourse on Method Descartes...
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    The idea is mentioned in 18th century sources such as Diderot's D'Alembert's Dream. Erasmus Darwin's Zoonomia (c. 1795) suggested that warm-blooded animals...
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  • Lawrence Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster Daisy Miller by Henry James D'Alembert's Dream by Denis Diderot The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic The...
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    Library of Liberal Arts, 1964) Leonard Tancock: Rameau's Nephew and D'Alembert's Dream (Penguin, 1966) Ian C. Johnston: Rameau's Nephew (2002) Margaret Mauldon:...
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  • les femmes Refutation of Helvetius La Religieuse Rameau's Nephew D'Alembert's Dream Jacques the Fatalist Madame de La Carlière Paradox of the Actor Supplément...
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    all the paradoxes that are presented to him in his readings and in his dreams.) At the time, the Histoire des deux Indes was considered an encyclopaedia...
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  • of the Space and Science Museum in Takeo, Saga prefecture. "Yume" means "dream", and "ginga" means "galaxy". Yumeginga will be celebrating its tenth anniversary...
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  • mariner, joining the U.S. Merchant Marine in 1943 to fulfill a life-long dream of going to sea. He was a forward thinker and inspired early technological...
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    Lavoisier, who discovered the role of oxygen in combustion. Diderot and D'Alembert published the Encyclopédie, which aimed to give the public access to "useful...
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  • Euler, Leonhard (1747). Henry, Charles (ed.). Lettres inédites d'Euler à d'Alembert. Bullettino di Bibliografia e di Storia delle Scienze Matematiche e Fisiche...
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    was edited by Denis Diderot and, until 1759, co-edited by Jean le Rond d'Alembert. The Encyclopédie is most famous for representing the thought of the Enlightenment...
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    European fashion 1200–1300 in European fashion Rubenstein (2019), p. 38. D'Alembert (1751). Chibnall (1973), pp. 186–187. Planché (1876), p. 459. Chibnall...
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    roughly like English "consciousness" in the 1753 volume of Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie as "the opinion or internal feeling that we ourselves have...
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    Diderot, Denis (15 April 2013). "Viola, pansy". Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert - Collaborative Translation Project. Retrieved 1 April 2015. "Viola cornuta...
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    and scientific activity, known as the Age of Enlightenment. Diderot and D'Alembert published their Encyclopédie in 1751, before the Montgolfier Brothers...
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    Explanation of the System of Human Knowledge". Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert – Collaborative Translation Project. Retrieved 1 April 2015. The thoughts...
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    Descartes's version of the dream argument, with Locke making the counter-argument that people cannot have physical pain in dreams as they do in waking life...
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    piece of drawing chalk. Even the rational critic is inspired by irrational dream-content under the gaze of the sharp-eyed lynx. Marshall Brown makes much...
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    "Time to Remove the Bananas...and Return Our Republic to Democracy," CommonDreams.org, 6 November 2002 MacChesney, Robert W (1999). Rich media, poor democracy:...
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  • (2021). The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred. New York, NY: Bold Type Books. ISBN 978-1-5417-2470-9. OCLC 1164503847...
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    hunting in his own territory of Settsu, he dreamt under a tree and had a dream in which a beautiful woman appeared to him and begged him to save her land...
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  • (4th ed.). Paris: Imprimerie royale. pp. 16–554. Diderot, Denis; Le Rond d'Alembert, Jean. Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et...
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    transforms. One of the earliest uses of the convolution integral appeared in D'Alembert's derivation of Taylor's theorem in Recherches sur différents points importants...
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    in 1997, described as "cerebral but warm and likeable". The sequel, D'Alembert's Principle took its title from a principle of physics. Crumey was a regular...
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