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Aug 1, 2007 · Each species is a small universe in itself, from its genetic code to its anatomy, behavior, life cycle, and environmental role, a self-perpetuating system created during an almost unimaginably complicated evolutionary history. Each species merits careers of scientific study and celebration by historians and poets. E.
- Gerald Weissmann
- 2007
Based on this sensationalist psychology, Diderot and d’Alembert argued in the “Preliminary Discourse” to the Encyclopédie that human knowledge consisted of three branches: Memory, expressed as natural, civil, and sacred history. Reason, divided into knowledge of man and knowledge of nature.
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Mar 27, 2021 · The publication of the Encyclopédie (which began in 1751) has been described as ‘the greatest single enterprise of the Enlightenment’. Many of the greatest minds of the age contributed to it working together as a team but coordinated by Diderot and D'Alembert.
- Nick Hearn
- 2014
Encyclopédie (1751–1777), edited by Diderot and D'Alembert, was greatly admired and a model for many subsequent works. While ancient and medieval encyclopedism emphasized the classics, liberal arts, informed citizenship, or law, the modern encyclopedia springs from a separate tradition.
May 11, 2018 · BIOLOGY. Biology comes from the Greek word for life, bis, and the Greek word for thought or reasoning, logos. It denotes the science that studies life, the properties and processes that sustain life, the evolutionary history of life, and particular living organisms.
Oct 31, 2023 · Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms. Modern biology is a vast and eclectic field composed of many specialized disciplines that study the structure, function, growth, distribution, evolution, or other features of living organisms.
Oct 28, 2022 · The Encyclopedia is a body, where the most important human sciences (connaissances) are arranged in order” (cited in Dierse 1977, 32). But in “Nouveaux essais sur l’entendement humain,” Leibniz contemplates the Platonic-Stoic division of knowledge into logic, physics, and ethics, only to reject it as untenable.
