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d'Alembert, Jean le Rond
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d'Alembert, Jean le Rond: see Alembert Alembert, Jean le Rond d' , 1717–83, French mathematician and philosopher. The illegitimate son of the chevalier Destouches, he was named for the St. Jean le Rond church, on whose steps he was found. His father had him educated.
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Scholars of philosophy, of history, or of history of philosophy consider such topic as reactions to Spinoza in Germany around 1700, French royal censorship and the battle to suppress the Encyclopedia of Diderot and D'Alembert 1751-59, the breakdown of censorship and the modes of printed discourse during the English Civil War, John Toland and the censorship of atheism, and G.
The rich array of the characters who entered the lives of Hume and Rousseau are woven into the plot: Diderot, D'Alembert, Voltaire, Comtesse de Bouffler, Julie de Lespinasse, Turgot, Condorcet, Boswell, Adam Smith, Adam Ferguson, Horace Walpole, Lord Kames, Francis Hutcheson, Erasmus Darwin, Frederick II, Louis XV, Prince de Conti, David Garrick, and many others.
Luther's Bible and an original 1758 edition of Diderot and d'Alembert Encyclopedia also feature prominently.
 
 
 
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