L'encyclopédie Diderot et d'Alembert Tapissier Tapisserie des Gobelins - Denis Diderot, Jean Le Rond d' Alembert
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The Columbia Encyclopedia on Credo Reference says "The work of the French Encyclopedists, or philosophes. The full title was Encyclopédie; ou, Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts, et des métiers. This work was originally planned as a translation of Ephraim Chambers's Cyclopedia (1st ed. 1728), and the first editor was the Abbé Gua de Malves. The project was abandoned because of disagreements, and Le Breton, the publisher, agreed to let Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert edit an entirely new work. With the aid of Quesnay, Montesquieu, Voltaire, J.J. Rousseau, Turgot, and others, the two editors produced the first volume in 1751, with a famous "preliminary discourse" signed by Alembert. The discourse indicated the aims of the project and then presented definitions and histories of science and the arts. The rational, secular emphasis of the whole volume infuriated the Jesuits, who attacked the work as irreligious and used their influence to convince the government to withdraw (1759) the official ...
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2002, softcover
Collection: Recueil de planches sur les sciences les arts liberaux, et les arts mecaniques avec leur explication. [Taal: fr] [Uitgever: Inter-Livres] [Jaar: 2002] [Titel: L'encyclopédie Diderot et d'Alembert Tapissier Tapisserie des Gobelins]
Collection: Recueil de planches sur les sciences les arts liberaux, et les arts mecaniques avec leur explication. [Taal: fr] [Uitgever: Inter-Livres] [Jaar: 2002] [Titel: L'encyclopédie Diderot et d'Alembert Tapissier Tapisserie des Gobelins]
