Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers

Abstract

The Encyclop'edie ou Dictionnaire raisonn'e des sciences, des arts et des m'etiers was a massive reference work for the arts and sciences published under the direction of Diderot and d’Alembert between 1751 and 1772, comprising 17 volumes of text and 11 volumes of plates. Containing 74,000 articles written by more than 130 contributors including Voltaire, Montesquieu, and Rousseau, it served to propagate the ideas of the French Enlightenment.