d'Alembert

/ dalɑ̃bɛr /

noun

d'AlembertJean Le Rond17171783MFrenchSCIENCE: mathematicianSCIENCE: physicistPHILOSOPHY: philosopherWRITING: encyclopedist 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

In writing to d'Alembert about this time he seemed to have a fairly favorable impression of the book.

Frederick was surprised that Voltaire and D'Alembert had found anything good in the book.

This is the passage which Diderot has transposed and put au courant with science in his Rve d'Alembert.

I sketched out the first sheet, and this brought me acquainted with D'Alembert, to whom Diderot had mentioned it.

The letter to D'Alembert breathed a gentleness of mind which every one perceived not to be affected.

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