Urbain de Vandenesse (? – 1753, Paris) was an 18th-century French physician and Encyclopédiste.

Life

After he presented six thesis at the Faculté de médecine de Paris, he was received with the title docteur-régent in 1742.^[1][2]

The 270 articles he wrote for the Encyclopédie by Denis Diderot and d’Alembert are the only texts we know of him. There were more than 150 articles for Volume I and about 100 for Volume II ; his sudden death interrupted his cooperation for the relevant sections of Volume III for which he could contribute only one article.

After the death of Vandenesse, Diderot needed a new author in the field of medicine and pharmacy. On the recommendation of Gabriel François Venel, he chose Arnulphe d'Aumont.