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An Essay on Blindness

work by Diderot

Also known as: “La Lettre sur les aveugles”

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In Denis Diderot: The Encyclopédie
…Lettre sur les aveugles (An Essay on Blindness), remarkable for its proposal to teach the blind to read through the sense of touch, along lines that Louis Braille was to follow in the 19th century, and for the presentation of the first step in his evolutionary theory of survival…
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