K. Ballstadt, Diderot: natural philosopher

Kurt Ballstadt, Diderot: natural philosopher, Oxford, Voltaire Foundation, SVEC, septembre 2008, viii-246p.

Isbn (ean13): 978 0 7294 0948 3

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Présentation de l'éditeur:

A comprehensive overview of Denis Diderot's scientific work, from the Lettre sur les aveugles to the Eléments de physiologie, in which Kurt Ballstadt investigates Diderot's fascination with mathematics, experimental physics, chemistry, natural history and medicine, and draws out the crucial points of contact between them. We are led away from the image of a radical Diderot, champion of disorder, to an analysis of a more systematic thinker whose underlying search for structure characterized both his attitude to the world around him, and the way he wrote about it. 

Introduction1. Mathematics2. Experimental physics3. Chemistry4. Natural history5. MedicineConclusionAppendix: chronological list of Diderot's work references

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