Denis Diderot (/ˈdiːdəroʊ/; French: [dəni did(ə)ʁo]; 5 October 1713 – 31 July 1784) was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer, best known for serving...
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1994 after the 18th-century French philosopher, art critic and writer Denis Diderot. Formerly based at the Jussieu Campus, in the 5th arrondissement, the...
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Grant McCracken in 1988, and is named after the French philosopher Denis Diderot (1713–1784), who first described the effect in an essay titled "Regrets...
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Lycée Denis Diderot may refer to: Lycée Denis Diderot (Kenya) - Nairobi, Kenya Lycée Denis Diderot (Carvin) - Carvin, France This disambiguation page lists...
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Encyclopédistes (section Denis Diderot)
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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Encyclopédie (redirect from Diderot's Encyclopedia)
It had many writers, known as the Encyclopédistes. It was edited by Denis Diderot and, until 1759, co-edited by Jean le Rond d'Alembert. The Encyclopédie...
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Figurative system of human knowledge (redirect from Encyclopédie:The Tree of Diderot and d'Alembert)
itself, produced for the Encyclopédie by Jean le Rond d'Alembert and Denis Diderot. The tree was a taxonomy of human knowledge, inspired by Francis Bacon's...
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Denis Diderot as quoted in Hunt, p. 611 University of the State of New York (1893). Annual Report of the Regents, Volume 106. p. 266. Denis Diderot as...
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Anne-Antoinette Diderot (née Champion; 22 February 1710 – 10 April 1796) was the wife of the pioneer encyclopedist Denis Diderot and the mother of his...
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The French School of Nairobi, also known as the Lycée Denis Diderot (LDD), is the French international school in Kenya. It is located in the district...
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for its cutlery industry. Didier Diderot, father of encyclopedist Denis, was a cutler. A museum called the Denis Diderot House of Enlightenment opened in...
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Catherine the Great (category Denis Diderot)
Christoph Friedrich Nicolai. In the second category fell the work of Denis Diderot, Jacques Necker, Johann Bernhard Basedow and Georges-Louis Leclerc,...
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D'Alembert's Dream (category Works by Denis Diderot)
d'Alembert) is an ensemble of three philosophical dialogues authored by Denis Diderot in 1769, which first anonymously appeared in the Correspondance littéraire...
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categories. It attracted the attention of prominent thinkers such as Denis Diderot and Immanuel Kant. According to Burke, the Beautiful is that which is...
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Rameau's Nephew (category Novels by Denis Diderot)
ou La Satire seconde) is an imaginary philosophical conversation by Denis Diderot, probably written between 1761 and 1774. It was first published in 1805...
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by their peers of atheism were not actually atheists. D'Holbach and Denis Diderot seem to be two of the very small number of publicly identified atheists...
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Baron d'Holbach (section D'Holbach and Diderot)
friends to stay for a few days or weeks, and every year he invited Denis Diderot whom he joined at a Anglican chapel service at the opening of the English...
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List of liberal theorists (section Denis Diderot)
literature: Discourse on Inequality, 1755 On the Social Contract, 1762 Denis Diderot (France, 1713–1784) Some literature: Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné...
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métiers. pp. 179–180. Retrieved 27 March 2018. Diderot (Biography), Denis (2003). The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project...
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of the major figures of the Enlightenment included Cesare Beccaria, Denis Diderot, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, Lord Monboddo, Montesquieu, Jean-Jacques...
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House of Enlightenment, Denis Diderot or La Maison des Lumières Denis Diderot (MLDD) is a museum dedicated to Denis Diderot, the French philosopher,...
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Supplément au voyage de Bougainville (category Works by Denis Diderot)
actions which bear none") is a set of philosophical dialogues written by Denis Diderot, inspired by Louis Antoine de Bougainville's Voyage autour du monde...
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Jacques the Fatalist (category Novels by Denis Diderot)
his Master (French: Jacques le fataliste et son maître) is a novel by Denis Diderot, written during the period 1765–1780. The first French edition was published...
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19th century proponents of pre-Darwinian evolutionary ideas included Denis Diderot, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Erasmus Darwin, Robert Grant, and Robert...
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designated irrelevant. One of the first recorded apatheists was arguably Denis Diderot (1713–1784), who wrote: "It is very important not to mistake hemlock...
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2011. Diderot, Denis. "Marbreur de papier". Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, etc., eds. Denis Diderot and Jean...
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La Religieuse (novel) (category Novels by Denis Diderot)
French novel by Denis Diderot. Completed in about 1780, it was first published by Friedrich Melchior Grimm in 1792 (eight years after Diderot's death) in his...
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writer Jean Jacques Rousseau was born on 28 June and his countryman Denis Diderot was born the following year 1713 on 5 October. Also in 1712 Pope published...
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Louise d'Épinay (category Denis Diderot)
reports of her in his Confessions, as well as her acquaintanceship with Denis Diderot, Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Baron d'Holbach and other French men of letters...
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philosopher, and music theorist. Until 1759 he was, together with Denis Diderot, a co-editor of the Encyclopédie. D'Alembert's formula for obtaining...
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