A Brief History of the First French Encyclopedia
In the mid-1700s , a pair of Gallic writers set out to organize all human knowledge . They call their project theEncyclopédie , and it was a transformation and massive enlargement of the EnglishCyclopædia , or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences . Denis Diderot was the driving force behind the labor , and was play along by Jean le Rond d’Alembert until 1759 . The projection was deucedly vast , and raised substantial questions that still challenge scholars today : How do you categorize and classify noesis ?...