Pensées sur l’interprétation de la nature

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  • Dimitry Levitzky: portrait of Denis Diderot
    In Denis Diderot: The Encyclopédie

    …in 1754 he published the Pensées sur l’interprétation de la nature (“Thoughts on the Interpretation of Nature”), an influential short treatise on the new experimental methods in science. Diderot published few other works in his lifetime, however. His writings, in manuscript form, were known only to his friends and the…

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