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Product Overview
The first attempt to hoard all of western knowledge occurred in 1751 when two notable French thinkers, Diderot and d'Alembert, published the number one volume of the Encyclopedia. An ambitious work that attempted to synthesize a series of articles in all human knowledge, such as the science of the time and could transmit thinkers. The Encyclopedia was the most representative work of the Enlightenment. Its original name: L'Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers and was published between 1751 and 1772. It contains much knowledge of the eighteenth century and represents a huge effort on the part of the authors, reason illuminate the path that Western society should seek to advance. Encyclopedia organizational structure used as theme the "tree of human knowledge", enunciated by the English philosopher Francis Bacon and the "Discourse on Method" by Descartes. Cultural and scientific work was published in 35 volumes motley: 17 were text, 11 were recorded, 4 were supplements, 2 were indexes. In total about 150 employees participated, highlights: Voltaire, Diderot, D'Alembert, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Helvetius, Condillac, d'Holbach, Daubenton, Marmontel, Dumarsais, Quesnay, Turgot and Javcourt Knight. To manage the amount of information is required 4 editors: Le Breton, Briasson, David, Laurent Durand. The project generated employment for over 1,000 workers for 25 years and was a response to the need to update knowledge they had the upper classes illustrated. Some time before, in 1542, the architect, painter and writer Italian Georgio Vasari (1511-1574), wrote: Le vite de 'più eccellenti pittori, scultori and architettori (The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, sculptors and architects). A collection of methods, anecdotes, rumors and legends of the lives of artists, who began the genre biographies.