Alembert
Britishnoun
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The popularizers of science during this period were Voltaire, Montesquieu, Alembert, Diderot, and other encyclopædists.
From Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work by Packard, A. S. (Alpheus Spring)
D’ Alembert retired in January 1758, weary of sermons, satires and intolerant and absurd censors.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various
It is said that at Petersburg Diderot is considered a tiresome reasoner," wrote the King of Prussia to D' Alembert in January, 1774; "he is incessantly harping on the same things.
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 by Black, Robert
Now and again the effort is admirable, notably in The Adventures of Ernest Alembert, but on the whole it amounts to as little as did the juvenile productions of Shelley.
From Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle by Shorter, Clement King
He voluntarily made every effort to increase its circulation, and even complained to D' Alembert "that there were not as many copies in all Paris as he himself had dispersed throughout the mountains of Switzerland."
From Superstition In All Ages (1732) Common Sense by Knoop, Anna
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