D'Alembert, a French philosopher, devoted to science, and especially to mathematics; along with Diderot established the celebrated “Encyclopédie,” wrote the Preliminary Discourse, and contributed largely to its columns, editing the mathematical portion of it; trained to quiet and frugality, was indifferent to wealth and honour, and a very saint of science; no earthly bribe could tear him away from his chosen path of life (1717‒1783).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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