Diderot
Americannoun
noun
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Denis Diderot hoped that, in death, he would unite with his beloved as a flurry of molecules.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026
The incident happened at a museum dedicated to French philosopher Denis Diderot in Landres, north-eastern France on Sunday night.
From BBC • Oct. 23, 2025
Figures like Diderot and Hume derived some of their ideas on liberty from classical texts, where they found declarations of political and personal freedoms.
From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2021
Robert D. Zaretsky is a professor of modern European intellectual and cultural history at the University of Houston and the author of “Catherine & Diderot: The Empress, The Philosopher and the Fate of the Enlightenment.”
From Washington Post • Apr. 16, 2019
The answer may seem obvious: Diderot is writing about the transformation in knowledge that we now call the Scientific Revolution.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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