“Though he loved many innovations in science and devoted his life to introduce useful ones in the arts, he didn't like them in politics and even less in the statutes of the academies”

—  Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau

Marquis de Condorcet. Tribute to Duhamel du Monceau, April 30, 1783

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