Read more: 18 Simple Cleaning Hacks To Keep Your Home Tidy The effect is named after Denis Diderot, an 18 th-century French philosopher and writer. Diderot, who was never wealthy, acquired an ...

Think of Denis Diderot’s “Encyclopédie,” Isaac Newton’s “Principia Mathematica,” America’s Bill of Rights, the heroic couplet, neoclassical architecture or even poet William Blake ...

Naomi Alderman looks at the remarkable way Denis Diderot connected ideas and people. In 18th-century Paris, he edited an early and vast encyclopaedia, despite fierce opposition. Show more Naomi ...