D'Alembert's Dream

Phoebe Von Held worked with scientists to develop to develop a dramatisation of Denis Diderot's 18th-century text 'D'Alembert's Dream', which envisages the cosmos as a delirious universe of scientific speculation and metaphor.

Von Held worked with a number of scientists at the National Institute for Medical Research to link Diderot's speculations to developments in contemporary science. The clip below is an animated piece of the dramatisation involving one of Diderot's characters and a scientist in discussion.

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Running time: 35 s
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