d'Alembert

British

/ dalɑ̃bɛr /

noun

Jean Le Rond (ʒɑ̃ lə rɔ̃). 1717–83, French mathematician, physicist, and rationalist philosopher, noted for his contribution to Newtonian physics in Traité de dynamique (1743) and for his collaboration with Diderot in editing the Encyclopédie

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By the middle of the eighteenth century, French scholars Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d’Alembert felt ready to catalogue all human knowledge in their comprehensive, 30-volume Encyclopédie.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

Denis Diderot and Jean d’Alembert in their great Encyclopedia included a lengthy section on Locke, as did Johann Zedler’s German Universal-Lexicon.

From Salon • Nov. 26, 2015

The even more illustrious geometer Jean le Rond d’Alembert, who as well as being a mathematician was Diderot’s fellow encyclopedist, was the toast of the most fashionable Paris salons.

From Slate • Nov. 19, 2014

The universe, the 18th-century mathematician and philosopher Jean Le Rond d’Alembert said, “would only be one fact and one great truth for whoever knew how to embrace it from a single point of view.”

From New York Times • Mar. 18, 2011

In 1756 d’Alembert celebrated what he took to be the triumph of the new experimental physics in France in the ‘Experimental’ article of the Encyclopédie.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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