Although the Encyclopédie was Diderot's monumental piece, he was the author of many other works that sowed nearly every field of intellectual interest with new and creative ideas.

Realizing the inherent problems with the model of knowledge he had created, Diderot's view of his own success in writing the Encyclopédie were far from ecstatic.

Foreign printed sources such as the Descriptions des Arts et Métiers and Diderot's Encyclopédie explained foreign methods with fine engraved plates.

It developed some of the ideas mentioned in an earlier work, the article Economie Politique ( Discourse on Political Economy ), featured in Diderot's Encyclopédie.

The publication of Denis Diderot's and Jean d ' Alembert's Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers marked the crowning intellectual achievement of the epoch.

He wrote several articles for Diderot's Encyclopédie, published an essay on " Luxury " in 1764, brought out an edition of The Seasons with a selection of his other poetry and some short stories in 1769, and completed a multi-volume philosophical work in 1797-98, called Principe des mœurs chez toutes les nations ou Catéchisme universel ( Principle of morals among all nations, or universal catechism ).

* Denis Diderot's Encyclopédie is temporarily suppressed by the French government.

It has since been covered by several notable texts, including Diderot's Encyclopédie, Voltaire and the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, and also by the 2004 book The Last Duel by Eric Jager.

Inspired by an article in Diderot's Encyclopédie, Smith described the production of a pin in the following way:

In his Discourse on Political Economy, Rousseau explicitly credits Diderot's Encyclopédie article " Droit Naturel " as the source of " the luminous concept " of the general will, of which he maintains his own thoughts are simply a development.

According to Denis Diderot's Encyclopédie, the style of Royal Highness was created on the insistence of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria, Cardinal-Infante of Spain, a younger son of King Philip III of Spain.

Two sets of Diderot's Encyclopédie and its supplements were cut up into articles.

Ambert is famous for its fourme-d ' Ambert cheese, its paper mills ( the first edition of Diderot's Encyclopédie was printed on paper made in Ambert ) and its circular town hall ( popularized by Jules Romain in his novel Les copains ).

* Louis de Jaucourt, French physicist and writer, a major contributor to Diderot's Encyclopédie

This distinction between empirical and rational psychology was picked up in Denis Diderot's ( 1713 – 1780 ) Encyclopédie ( 1751 – 1784 ) and was popularized in France by Maine de Biran ( 1766 – 1824 ).

For Diderot's Encyclopédie he wrote several entries, among them " Electricité ", " Magnétisme ", " Aimant " ( Magnet ), and " Aiguille aimantée " ( Compass needle ).

Pierre Bayle's Dictionnaire historique et critique ( 1695 – 1697 ; enlarged 1702 ), with its multiplicity of marginalia and interpretations, offered a uniquely discursive and multifaceted view of knowledge ( distinctly at odds with French classicism ); it would be a major inspiration for the Enlightenment and Diderot's Encyclopédie.

It was also in 1751 that Sir Joseph issued a prospectus inviting subscribers for a translation of Diderot's and D ' Alembert's Encyclopédie, with additional or expanded articles on subjects of English interest.

Their popularity inspired Diderot's Supplement to the Voyage of Bougainville ( 1772 ), a scathing critique of European sexual hypocrisy and colonial exploitation.

Diderot's celebrated Lettre sur les aveugles à l ' usage de ceux qui voient (" Letter on the Blind ") ( 1749 ), introduced him to the world as a daringly original thinker.

Her name was Angélique, after both Diderot's dead mother and sister.

The death of his sister, a nun, from overwork in the convent may have affected Diderot's opinion of religion.

Diderot's travel from Paris to Saint Petersburg in 1773-1774.

Diderot's earliest works included a translation of Temple Stanyan's History of Greece ( 1743 ); with two colleagues, François-Vincent Toussaint and Marc-Antoine Eidous, he produced a translation of Robert James's Medicinal Dictionary ( 1746 – 1748 ); at about the same time he published a free rendering of Shaftesbury's Inquiry Concerning Virtue and Merit ( 1745 ), with some original notes of his own.

Jean le Rond d ' Alembert was persuaded to become Diderot's colleague ; the requisite permission was procured from the government.

However, Diderot's work was plagued by controversy from the beginning ; the project was suspended by the courts in 1752.

At the last moment, when his immense work was drawing to an end, he encountered a crowning mortification: he discovered that the bookseller, fearing the government's displeasure, had struck out from the proof sheets, after they had left Diderot's hands, all passages that he considered too dangerous.

Diderot's Essais sur la peinture was described by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, as " a magnificent work, which speaks even more helpfully to the poet than to the painter, though to the painter too it is as a blazing torch.

Diderot's most intimate friend was the philologist Friedrich Melchior Grimm.

" Jean-Baptiste Greuze was Diderot's favorite contemporary artist.

Diderot's interest expressed itself in didactic and sympathetic form.

A favorite classical author of Diderot's, Horace's words Vertumnis, quotquot sunt, natus iniquis are quoted at the top of the Nephew.

Diderot's intention in writing the dialogue is disputed ; whether it is merely a satire on contemporary manners, or a reduction of the theory of self-interest to an absurdity, or the application of irony to the ethics of ordinary convention, or a mere setting for a discussion about music, or a vigorous dramatic sketch of a parasite and a human original.

Diderot's miscellaneous pieces range from a graceful trifle like the Regrets sur ma vieille robe de chambre ( Regrets for my Old Dressing Gown ) up to Le rêve de D ' Alembert, where he plunges into the depths of the controversy as to the ultimate constitution of matter and the meaning of life.

Instead of taking on the classical criticism of art that involved knowledge of color, composition and line, Gautier was strongly influenced by Denis Diderot's idea that the critic should have the ability to describe the art so as the reader can " see " the art through his description.

It was during this period that Gorky, along with Lunacharsky, Bogdanov and Vladimir Bazarov developed the idea of an Encyclopedia of Russian History as a socialist version of Diderot's Encyclopedia.

Jacques, the title character of Denis Diderot's " Jacques the Fatalist ", is said to have been severely wounded in the knee while serving in the French Army at the Battle of Fontenoy.

While in Paris, Rousseau became a close friend of French philosopher Diderot and, beginning with some articles on music in 1749, contributed numerous articles to Diderot and D ' Alembert's great Encyclopédie, the most famous of which was an article on political economy written in 1755.

In France, Enlightenment was based in the salons and culminated in the great Encyclopédie ( 1751 – 72 ) edited by Denis Diderot ( 1713 – 1784 ) with contributions by hundreds of leading philosophes cousins.

In Astruc's own times the writers of the Encyclopédie were working under great pressure and in secret, for Catholic Church did not offer a tolerant atmosphere for biblical criticism.

Panckoucke's great effort was the Encyclopédie Méthodique, an expansion and rearrangement of the Encyclopédie, with the subject matter organized by subject area rather than alphabetically.