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    Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert (/ˌdæləmˈbɛər/ DAL-əm-BAIR; French: [ʒɑ̃ batist lə ʁɔ̃ dalɑ̃bɛʁ]; 16 November 1717 – 29 October 1783) was a French mathematician...
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    translated left and right with time at the speed c. This was derived by Jean le Rond d'Alembert. Another way to arrive at this result is to factor the wave equation...
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  • d'Alembert may refer to: Jean le Rond d'Alembert the d'Alembert operator, named after the former d'Alembert's principle, also named after the above d'Alembert's...
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  • June 1751 to December 1765 under the editors Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert, and only Diderot from 1765 to 1772. The composition of the 17...
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    painters' brush as much as it depended on me," he wrote to Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert in 1774. Furthermore, he said to the Marquis d’Argens: "There...
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    and included notable philosophers such as Immanuel Kant, Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert, Pierre-Louis de Maupertuis, and Etienne de Condillac. However...
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    It 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...
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    Denis Diderot (category Lycée Louis-le-Grand alumni)
    chief editor, and contributor to the Encyclopédie along with Jean le Rond d'Alembert. He was a prominent figure during the Age of Enlightenment. Diderot...
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  • 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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  • centuries. He wrote biographies of William Rowan Hamilton and Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert, and the relationship between science and the Age of Enlightenment...
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    French. Their translation was appropriated by Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert as the starting point for their Encyclopédie. In particular, the...
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  • main contributors to the Encyclopédie of Denis Diderot and Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert on the topic of grammar. In 1772 he was named as the successor...
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    alphabetically arranged Encyclopédie, edited by Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert. The full title was L'Encyclopédie méthodique ou par ordre de matières...
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  • La Chambre Jean le Rond D'Alembert François Dagognet Étienne Noël Damilaville Jean Philibert Damiron Hubert Damisch Françoise Dastur Jean Daujat Lionel...
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    the Encyclopédie. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation. Diderot, Denis; d'Alembert, Jean le Rond (1751–1772). Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences...
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  • Before the performance, the actor Jean Baptiste Brisard read a speech written by Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert. The role of Agathocle was played by...
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    abilities gained the praise of Jean le Rond d'Alembert and Alexis Clairaut; soon, Condorcet would study under d'Alembert. From 1765 to 1774, he focused...
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  • José Achache (20th-21st centuries), geophysicist and ecologist Jean le Rond d'Alembert (1717–1783), mathematician, mechanician, physicist and philosopher...
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  • Mr. Le Clerc, Melle. Castagneri), 6 sonatas without bass, TWV 40:124–129 Charles Avison – Essay on Musical Expression Jean le Rond D'Alembert – Eléments...
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    She also defended the Encyclopédie, edited by Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert, against those, among them the Archbishop of Paris Christophe de...
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    chapel. Notable students of the college include the encyclopedist Jean le Rond d'Alembert (1717–1783), the actor Henri Louis Cain (1728–1778), the painter...
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  • teacher and arranger of hymn tunes (born c.1706) October 29 – Jean le Rond d'Alembert, music theorist and philosopher (born 1717) November 3 – Charles...
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  • wrote an article on bridge construction for Denis Diderot's and Jean le Rond d'Alembert's Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et...
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    introduction from Le Canu to Jean le Rond d'Alembert who at that time was supreme in scientific circles. According to his great-great-grandson, d'Alembert received...
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    générale et particulière (begun in 1749) and Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert's Encyclopédie (volumes added between 1751 and 1772) thus became...
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  • Raymond Aron, sociologist and philosopher Jean le Rond d'Alembert Gaston Bachelard Georges Bataille Roland Barthes Jean Baudrillard, philosopher and sociologist...
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  • strain. 1747 – Jean le Rond d'Alembert's formula for the solutions of the wave equation in a string gets published. 1752 – D'Alembert show an inconsistency...
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    Jean le Rond d'Alembert, co-creator with Diderot of the Encyclopédie (creating the concept of encyclopedia) Denis Diderot, co-creator with d'Alembert...
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    religion dropped to just one-tenth of the total. Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert published their Encyclopedie in seventeen volumes between 1751...
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    Rodin. Rodin produced the figure of the 18th-century mathematician Jean le Rond d'Alembert, finished in 1882. The statue on the garden wall on the south side...
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