The prospectus was reviewed quite positively and cited at some length in several journals. The text was translated by Mills and Sellius, and it was corrected by an unnamed person, who appears to have been Denis Diderot. This four page prospectus was illustrated by Jean-Michel Papillon, and accompanied by a plan, stating that the work would be published in five volumes from June 1746 until the end of 1748. In France a member of the banking family Lambert had started translating Chambers into French, but in 1745 the expatriate Englishman John Mills and German Gottfried Sellius were the first to actually prepare a French edition of Ephraim Chambers's Cyclopaedia for publication, which they entitled Encyclopédie.Įarly in 1745 a prospectus for the Encyclopédie was published to attract subscribers to the project.
An Italian translation appeared between 17.
This work became quite renowned, and four editions were published between 17. Ephraim Chambers had first published his Cyclopaedia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences in two volumes in London in 1728, following several dictionaries of arts and sciences that had emerged in Europe since the late 17th century. The Encyclopédie was originally conceived as a French translation of Ephraim Chambers's Cyclopaedia (1728). Later volumes were published without the engravings, in order to better reach a wide audience within Europe. In the first publication, seventeen folio volumes were accompanied by detailed engravings. It was also the first encyclopedia to include contributions from many named contributors, and it was the first general encyclopedia to describe the mechanical arts. Thus, it is an example of democratization of knowledge. Diderot wanted to incorporate all of the world's knowledge into the Encyclopédie and hoped that the text could disseminate all this information to the public and future generations. He and the other contributors advocated for the secularization of learning away from the Jesuits. According to Denis Diderot in the article "Encyclopédie", the Encyclopédie's aim was "to change the way people think" and for people ( bourgeoisie) to be able to inform themselves and to know things. The Encyclopédie is most famous for representing the thought of the Enlightenment. It was edited by Denis Diderot and, until 1759, co-edited by Jean le Rond d'Alembert. It had many writers, known as the Encyclopédistes. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers (English: Encyclopedia, or a Systematic Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts, and Crafts), better known as Encyclopédie, was a general encyclopedia published in France between 17, with later supplements, revised editions, and translations.
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