See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Three hundred years ago, the author and philosopher Denis Diderot ...

Before there was Wikipedia, there were encyclopedias — and Saturday marks the 300th birthday of the father of one of the world's most important. Eighteenth-century French philosopher Denis Diderot was ...

The early months of 1743 brought Denis Diderot’s career as a con artist and freeloader to a shameful end. His own father committed him as a prisoner to the Carmelite monastery in his hometown of ...

The name Denis Diderot today rings no bells with the vast majority of the American public, yet the French regard him as one of the brightest luminaries of their civilization. They read him, argue ...

Denis Diderot was an 18th-century French philosopher, art critic, and writer, best known for serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the Encyclopédia along with Jean le Rond d’Alembert ...

Scott Russell Sanders is the author of “Earth Works: Selected Essays”, among other books. Freedoms that Americans too easily take for granted — freedom of speech, press, assembly and religion — are ...

When Charles Scribner’s Sons decided to publish an illustrated book on hoofed mammals in 1953, it was probably not a subject with promising financial prospects—a worthy scientific treatise, perhaps, ...