Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences
Creation: 1751
Denis Diderot, a key figure in the advancement of Enlightenment philosophy, envisioned the project of the Encyclopedie with his collaborator Jean D’Alembert. The prospectus was accompanied by a diagram of the “Map of Human Knowledge” which Diderot described as "the Genealogical Tree of All the Arts and Sciences." The Systême figuré groups all learning under memory (history), reason (philosophy) or imagination (poetry). God, as the source of knowledge, is conspicuously absent.
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Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences
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Creation: 1751
Publication: 1950
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Denis Diderot, a key figure in the advancement of Enlightenment philosophy, envisioned the project of the Encyclopedie with his collaborator Jean D’Alembert. The prospectus was accompanied by a diagram of the “Map of Human Knowledge” which Diderot described as "the Genealogical Tree of All the Arts and Sciences." The Systême figuré groups all learning under memory (history), reason (philosophy) or imagination (poetry). God, as the source of knowledge, is conspicuously absent.
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W.T. Bandy Center for Baudelaire Studies, Morris Wachs Collection, AE25 .E555 1751a
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“Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences,” Gallery, accessed July 4, 2022, https://gallery.library.vanderbilt.edu/items/show/720.