Abstract

DIDEROT INTERPRETER OF NATURE De l’interprétation de la nature is a fundamental work to understand Diderot’s scientific thought and probably of the whole century. His preference for biology rather than mathematics is not an idiosyncrasy but it’s instead a signal of the new dynamic conception of materialism. The reader has the availability of the materials to build a solid scientific philosophy: the scientific community, the divulgation, the creator geniuses, the relationship between different knowledges and considerations that are detached from the mere scientific data and that restructure the philosophical scientific questions which have always been asked.