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4. LEONARDO AND THE POTTER
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5. TREMBLEY’S POLYP
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6. THE CONSUL OF CAIRO
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———. “Benoît de Maillet et l’origine de la vie dans la mer: Conjecture amusante ou hypothèse scientifique?” Revue de Synthèse, 3rd series, 113–14 (1984): 37–54.
———. La Face cachée des Lumières: Recherches sur les manuscrits philosophiques clandestins de l’âge classique. Paris: Voltaire Foundation, 1996.
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———. “Benoît de Maillet et la diffusion de l’histoire naturelle à l’aube des Lumières,” Revue d’histoire des sciences 44, no. 3–4 (1991): 325–42.
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———. “Benoît de Maillet’s Leghorn Letters,” Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 30 (1964): 351–75.
———. “Benoît de Maillet’s Letters to the Marquis de Caumont,” Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 60 (1968): 311–38.
———. “Benoît de Maillet’s Marseilles Letters,” Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 37 (1965): 109–45.
7. THE HOTEL OF THE PHILOSOPHERS
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———. The Embattled Philosopher: A Biography of Denis Diderot. London: Neville Spearman, 1955.
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