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What did Jean le Rond d' Alembert write about?

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Diderot made him coeditor of the Encyclopédie , for which he wrote the "preliminary discourse" (1751) His writings include a treatise on dynamics (1743), in which he enunciated a principle of mechanics known as D'Alembert's principle ; a work on the theoretical and practical elements of music (1759); and a valuable history of the members of the French Academy (1787).

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