Diderot’s 1750 Encyclopedia | World History Project

How do you know when-and where-big changes are happening? Paris in the late eighteenth century was experiencing massive advances in science and technology, a great political transformation, and experiments in industrialization. But in 1750, most of its people were poor. The highest class were the same land-owning nobility and monarchy that had ruled for centuries, and its streets were covered in mud and excrement. Yet its thinkers were also producing one of the most important archives of knowledge and thought the world would ever see-the Encyclopedia. Its existence may have been a signal of change to come.
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Thank you. I’m reading Jean Jacques Rousseau Confessions and I sought out more information on Louis D Epinay. Fascinating the mention of Diderot and his project of Encyclopedia. This video gives me more info and context.

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Very interesting and well presented! Just read about it on wp yesterday and found this video a welcome summary.

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