http://bactra.org/notebooks Cosma's Notebooks en http://bactra.org/notebooks/1994/10/03#diderot One of the brighter lights of the <a href="enlightenment.html">Enlightenment</a>. <ul>Recommended: <li>By Diderot: <ul> <li><cite>D'Alembert's Dream</cite> [<a href="http://www.mala.bc.ca/~johnstoi/diderot/revedalembert_tofc.htm">Online text and translation</a>] <li><cite>Rameau's Nephew</cite> [There is a nice translation by <a href="barzun.html">Jacques Barzun</a>; also a <a href="http://www.mala.bc.ca/~johnstoi/diderot/rameau_E.htm">free one online</a>] <li>"Supplement to Bouganville's <cite>Voyage</cite>" </ul> <li>Aram Vartanian, <cite>From Descartes to Diderot</cite> </ul> <ul>To read: <li>P. N. Furbank, <cite>Diderot: A Criticial Biography.</cite> </ul>