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D’Alembert — Mathematician and philosopher
A foundling on the steps of a church whose name he bore, raised by a glazier’s wife, he became a mathematician before twenty-five and directed with another the century’s greatest intellectual undertaking. He withdrew from it when censorship grew too heavy. (Editorial synthesis)
D’Alembert was born in November 1717. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
D’Alembert was born in Paris. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
D’Alembert died in 1783. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Recorded work of d’Alembert: The Encyclopédie. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
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