Philosopher, Encyclopaedist (5-Oct-1713 — 31-Jul-1784)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Carol Blum. Diderot: The Virtue of a Philosopher. New York: Viking. 1974. 182pp.

Lester G. Crocker. The Embattled Philosopher: A Biography of Denis Diderot. Michigan State College Press. 1954. 442pp.

Otis Fellows. Diderot. Twayne. 1977. 193pp.

P. N. Furbank. Diderot: A Critical Biography. Westminister, MD: Alfred A. Knopf. 1992. 524pp.

Lilo K. Luxembourg. Francis Bacon and Denis Diderot: Philosophers of Science. New York: The Humanities Press. 1967. 127pp.

John Morley. Diderot and the Encyclopedists. London: Chapman and Hall. 1878. (2 vols.) 338pp. + 358pp.

Joseph Royall Smiley. Diderot's Relations with Grimm. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press. 1950. 127pp.

Aram Vartanian. Diderot and Descartes: A Study of Scientific Naturalism in the Enlightenment. Princeton University Press. 1953. 336pp.

Arthur McCandless Wilson. Diderot. New York: Oxford University Press. 1972. 917pp. First part pulblished previously as Diderot: The Testing Years.

AUTHORITIES

Below are references indicating presence of this name in another database or other reference material. Most of the sources listed are encyclopedic in nature but might be limited to a specific field, such as musicians or film directors. A lack of listings here does not indicate unimportance -- we are nowhere near finished with this portion of the project -- though if many are shown it does indicate a wide recognition of this individual.

1. NNDB [link]

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

3. Wikipedia [link]

4. Encyclopaedia Britannica 11th Edition

5. Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 5th Edition (p.417)

6. New York Public Library Literature Companion (p.67)

7. European Authors 1000-1900 (pp.228-31)

8. Who's Who in Lesbian & Gay Writing (p.55)

9. Benet's Readers Encyclopedia, 4th Edition (p.273)

10. Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology (p.124)

11. Hutchinson Paperback Dictionary of Biography (p.148)

12. A Short Biographical Dictionary of Foreign Literature (p.68)

13. Biographical Dictionary of Psychology (p.101)

14. The Reader's Encyclopedia of World Drama (pp.179-80)

15. Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientists (p.130)

16. The Hutchinson Dictionary of Ideas (p.149)

17. Legends in Their Own Time (p.67)

18. The World Almanac Biographical Dictionary (p.101)

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