Abstract
This article considers the shapes of the 18th century in the sphere of philosophy (Condillac, Diderot Rousseau) and also that of naturalism (Buffon), and in the initial expressions of the history of art (Descamps, Pernety Lacombe etc.). Indeed, its intention is to show both the extent to which sensualist theories suffocated the concept of shape in the middle of the century, and via the pivotal figure of the historian of art and nature : Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville, just how much the notion of shape was at the heart of this modern knowledge about natural phenomena and artefacts.
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