Mathematician, Physicist (17-Nov-1717 — 29-Oct-1783)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Joseph Bertrand. D'Alembert. Paris, France: Hachette. 1889. 207pp. Language: French.

Ronald Grimsley. Jean D'Alembert, 1717-83. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press. 1963. 316pp.

Thomas L. Hankins. Jean D'Alembert: Science and the Enlightenment. Taylor & Francis. 1990. 260pp.

John Nicholas Pappas. Voltaire and D'Alembert. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. 1962. 183pp.

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1. NNDB [link]

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

3. Wikipedia [link]

4. Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 5th Edition (p.27)

5. Hutchinson Paperback Dictionary of Biography (p.8)

6. European Authors 1000-1900 (p.16)

7. The Hutchinson Dictionary of Ideas (p.13)

8. Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology (p.150a)

9. Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography (p.160)

10. A Short Biographical Dictionary of Foreign Literature (p.3)

11. Biographical Dictionary of Psychology (p.7)

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