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A World of Things Online Book

A World of Things

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Published on: 2018-05-15
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Pages: 108
ISBN:0764982273
ISBN13: 9780764982279
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Introduction about the mid-eighteenth-century masterwork Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers (Encyclopedia, or a Systematic Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts and Crafts), edited by Denis Diderot and Jean Le Rond d Alembert.50 illustrations to color.Lay-flat binding and high-quality paper-easy to use with all your fine coloring tools.With their Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers (Encyclopedia, or a Systematic Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts and Crafts), editors Denis Diderot and Jean Le Rond d Alembert set out to map the scope of human knowledge. Published between 1751 and 1772, the encyclopedia s 28 volumes tackled subjects from chemistry and philosophy to botany and bookbinding. Contributors, including philosophers Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, espoused such Enlightenment values as empiricism and secularism, making the encyclopedia controversial in its time.The illustrations in this book are from a copy of the Encyclopédie owned by Gouverneur Morris, who served as a delegate at the Continental Congress and, later, as United States ambassador to France. Morris authored the preamble to the US Constitution, a document heavily influenced by Enlightenment philosophy. Morris s copy of the Encyclopédie is held in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division of the world s largest and most eclectic library, the Library of Congress, which holds materials in more than 470 languages. The Library s French collection, alone, comprises approximately one million items.Introduction about the mid-eighteenth-century masterwork Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers (Encyclopedia, or a Systematic Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts and Crafts), edited by Denis Diderot and Jean Le Rond d Alembert.50 illustrations to color.Lay-flat binding and high-quality paper-easy to use with all your fine coloring tools.With their Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers (Encyclopedia, or a Systematic Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts and Crafts), editors Denis Diderot and Jean Le Rond d Alembert set out to map the scope of human knowledge. Published between 1751 and 1772, the encyclopedia s 28 volumes tackled subjects from chemistry and philosophy to botany and bookbinding. Contributors, including philosophers Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, espoused such Enlightenment values as empiricism and secularism, making the encyclopedia controversial in its time.The illustrations in this book are from a copy of the Encyclopédie owned by Gouverneur Morris, who served as a delegate at the Continental Congress and, later, as United States ambassador to France. Morris authored the preamble to the US Constitution, a document heavily influenced by Enlightenment philosophy. Morris s copy of the Encyclopédie is held in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division of the world s largest and most eclectic library, the Library of Congress, which holds materials in more than 470 languages. The Library s French collection, alone, comprises approximately one million items.

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