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2013 marks the tercentenary of the birth of Denis Diderot was born in Langres October 5, 1713 and died in Paris July 31, 1784. Rights cans of sterno Enlightenment, novelist, playwright, cans of sterno storyteller, literary critic, translator, philosopher, he excelled at all by showing great erudition and good critical thinking. But here is the first encyclopedic that we honor.
The Encyclopedia Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts and Crafts, he wrote and directed with Jean Le Rond d'Alembert (1717-1783) from 1747 devotes an important chapter to insects and numerous articles species specific. Diderot and d'Alembert are of course not only written this stock of knowledge. They appealed to a large number of writers and illustrators more or less known (17 volumes of text, 11 volumes of plates, 160 authors).
The editors of the articles on entomology certainly involves work Reaumur (1683-1757), who wrote a book on entomology in six volumes cans of sterno published from 1734 to 1742. Diderot however personally invested in the Drafting of the Prospectus and a thousand articles, he has actively participated in the collection of information and illustrations.
The generic article on insect signed DJ (Louis de Jaucourt, cans of sterno nicknamed Encyclopedia slave, cans of sterno who signed articles on 17000 68000 Encyclopedia) is about 7 pages, more than 7600 words, almost 36500 characters excluding spaces. A sum ...
"Insect (Hist. nat.) Cub who has no blood. We distinguished between animals of this nature in large & small; large animals are soft, crustaceans & shell-forming; are small insects. There are more insects than species of fish, birds or quadrupeds species. There are also more conformational cans of sterno differences among insects, than in any other kind of animals. Without stopping to consider insects in general, try to take a picture of the different parts of their body.
The skin of caterpillars, worms, & c. is very tender and very weak; some spiders have several skins one on another, such as films of an onion. The skin of all insects is porous; cans of sterno in some it falls once a year, and in others up to four times; Finally, there are insects that have very tough skin & even packed scales.
The head is very small insects in each, and very large in proportion to other body; it has different shapes in different species. We see from round, flat, oval, large, pointy of fquare &, of United, & planers of hairy. [...] "
We immediately note that at this time the scientific definition of the insect is not ours "arthropod invertebrate animal characterized by a body made up of three distinct parts: head, thorax, with three pairs of legs , and abdomen "and spiders are still considered insects ... Later it will be the same for the" thousand-piés long & flat. "
The article goes into a long list of parts of the insect, describing precisely: the wings, legs, eyes, mouth, trunk, antennae, hair, color, etc.. emphasis on the variety, the dissimilarities between species. cans of sterno Similarly, it describes the different kinds of metamorphosis, reproduction, sexual dimorphism:
"In the insect species that mate, the females are usually larger than males; this difference is evident among fleas, crickets, cans of sterno & c. in several species of male antennas have nodes, whiskers or clumps of bristles which are not on the female cans of sterno antennas; males of some species of insects have wings, and females lack, or have only imperfect; they are provided in other species of a pipe used to conduct their eggs between the bark of trees, in the earth, in the leaf parenchyma, and in other places where they do not achieve without this organ pourroient . Sometimes the colors of the male are different to those of the female. "
It divides insects into 7 classes: Coleoptera, Hemiptera, Neuroptera, Lepidoptera, Hymenoptera, Diptera and wingless, he will then hold detail by genres. Thus the class of beetles cans of sterno is divided cans of sterno into 22 kinds, which he described species. But for the Hemiptera, he talked