Lecturas españolas de D'Alembert
- Ibeas-Altamira, Juan Manuel 1
- Vázquez, Lydia 1
- 1 Universidad del País Vasco UPV/EHU
ISSN: 1131-9879
Year of publication: 2020
Issue: 30
Pages: 237-258
Type: Article
More publications in: Cuadernos de estudios del siglo XVIII
Sustainable development goals
Abstract
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert was well known by the Spanish ilustrados as we can see in the library repertoires. In continental Spain or in the New Spain no one can be considered a wise man while he doesn't have his "Mélanges" (1st edition in four volumes in 1759, and 1st edition of volume 5 in 1767). But he is particularly respected, or blamed, as a mathematician and as co-director of the Encyclopedia. His "Système figuré des connaissances humaines" makes the "Discours préliminaire" indispensable, and turns his author, within the field of progressists, into the cartographer of the fields of knowledge and into the founder of the modern knowledge, liberated, at last, of metaphysics.