Denis diderot brief biography
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Diderot, Denis
(b.
Denis diderot brief biography
Langres, France, 5 October 1713; d. Paris, France, 31 July 1784)
letters, technology.
Diderot’s importance in the history of science derives from his having edited the Encyclopédie—with the partial collaboration of d’Alembert—and from a sensibility that anticipated and epitomized moral, psychological, and social opportunities and stresses attending the assimilation of science into culture.
Early Life and Work. He came from energetic stock.
His father, Didier, was a prosperous master-cutler who aspired to higher spheres for his children. His mother, born Angélique Vigneron, was of a family of tanners with a tendency to the priesthood. Diderot was the eldest child of seven.
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One sister, Angélique, became a nun and died mad. A brother, Didier Pierre, took orders and became archdeacon of Langres. It may have been fortunate for the Church that nothing beyond the tonsure at the age of thirteen came of the would-be nepotism of a maternal uncle who thought t