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Jean Le Rond d'Alembert
French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher and music theorist (1717-1783)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 16 November 1717
- Died
- 29 October 1783
- Part of
- Diderot and d'Alembert
- Place of birth
- Paris
- Place of death
- Paris
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Jean
- Movement
- Enlightenment philosophy
- Field of work
- mathematics, mechanics
- Occupation
- philosopher, mathematician, physicist, musicologist, translator, writer, music theorist, encyclopédistes, engineer, astronomer, lexicographer, intellectual
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of France
- Native language
- French
- Religion
- atheism
- birth name
- Jean Baptiste Louis d’Aremberg
- depicted by
- Portrait of Jean Le Rond d'Alembert
- described by source
- Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica Ninth Edition, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Encyclopedic Lexicon, Otto's encyclopedia, Encyclopedic Lexicon, Riemann's Music Dictionary, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), BEIC Digital Library, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Rationalists
- different from
- Jean-Baptiste Joseph Delambre
- doctoral advisor
- Léonor Caron
- doctoral student
- Pierre-Simon Laplace
- educated at
- University of Paris, Collège des Quatre-Nations
- has works in the collection
- Geldersch Landschap en Kasteelen, Museum De Lakenhal, ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Kunstmuseum Den Haag
- languages spoken, written or signed
- French
- member of
- Royal Society, Académie Française, Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, French Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters, Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, Academy of Sciences of Turin
- name in native language
- Jean le Rond D'Alembert
- notable work
- d'Alembert's paradox, d'Alembert operator, Encyclopédie, ratio test, D'Alembert's principle, D'Alembert's equation, d'Alembert's formula, Q2112228, Traité de dynamique, Éloge historique de M. Jean Bernoulli, Éloges lus dans les séances publiques de l’Académie françoise, Essai sur les élémens de philosophie, ou sur les principes des connoissances humaines
- partner in business or sport
- Denis Diderot
- place of burial
- Catacombs of Paris, cimetière Saint-Eustache
- relative
- Louis-Camus Destouches
- topic's main category
- Category:Jean Le Rond d'Alembert
- unmarried partner
- Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse
- writing language
- French
Connected on Wikidata
Author of
- Encyclopédie
- Preliminary Discourse to the Encyclopedia of Diderot
- Traité de dynamique
- Traité de dynamique
- L’Encyclopédie
- Recueil de planches, sur les sciences, les arts libéraux, et les arts méchaniques : avec leur explication
- La Suppression des jésuites
- Trois mois à la cour de Frédéric
- Recherches sur la précession des équinoxes et sur la nutation de l'axe de la terre
- Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers
- Éléments de philosophie
- Encylopedia
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