d'Alembert

British  

/ dalɑ̃bɛr /

noun

1. 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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Example Sentences

Working with the mathematician and fellow-polymath Jean le Rond d’Alembert, Diderot seeded the text with a pattern of often obscure renvois, cross-references, designed to show that one subject of study could lead to another in a surprising way.

From The New Yorker

Secular ideologies were all “gnostic” creeds, each a perversion of the old faith but curiously like it, with its own mythology, its prophets and priests, its holy scripture spelled out in Diderot and D’Alembert’s Encyclopédie, Marx’s “Das Kapital,” and other “new korans.”

From The New Yorker

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

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

The ailing 77-year-old leader was admitted to the Clinique d'Alembert in Grenoble on Thursday, the two French officials told The Associated Press.

From US News