Denis Diderot explains how he can make marble come to life ‘whenever he pleases’ in an imaginary dialogue between himself and his friend Jean le Rond d’Alembert, mathematician and co-editor of the Encyclopedia. In the following passage he has just informed d’Alembert, much to the latter’s astonishment, that he knows how to make marble have […]
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Dr. Jonathan Gray is Prize Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research at the University of Bath and Co-Founder of the Public Data Lab. More about his work can be found here. He is on Twitter at @jwyg.