#encyclopedie

[ttrraasshh]

[ ☜ left ] arteries, from Diderot and d’Alembert’s Encyclopédie, 1751-1772

[ right ☞ ] Saymaluu-Tash national park petroglyphs, Kyrgyzstan

[nonetheless]

A new tool for visualizing the world in which we live: "Everyone, Everywhere: Mapping Humanity's Changing Footprint in Unprecedented Detail" @andrewzolli.bsky.social‬

(Plus- Denis Diderot)

Get down with data: https://roughlydaily.com/2025/07/31/without-data-youre-just-another-person-with-an-opinion-2/

[nameahappyhero]

Bless the Telephone- Labi Siffre// After the Lunch- Wendy Cope// Sunday Evening, Place du Combat, Paris- Harry Kernoff// Waterloo Sunset- The Kinks// Mockingjay- Suzanne Collins// The Meeting on the Turret Stairs- Frederic William Burton// Amour, Galanterie- Louis Chevalier de Jaucourt (Encyclopédie)

[lindahall]

Denis Diderot – Scientist of the Day

Denis Diderot, a French philosophe , was born Oct. 5, 1713.  

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[grandboute]

Angelique

[woodsonresearchcenter]

Custom Book Boxes

Over the past three years, we have been sending out some of our heavily used and most precious rare books to a company called Octávaye owned by Wendy Ossoinig.

Ossoinig takes our book and creates custom made boxes for them. When a class comes to see Diderot‘s Encyclopedie book plates, we no longer haul out the rapidly deteriorating volumes hoping that the binding won’t split, the cover won’t detach, and that our foam wedges will provide enough support. We bring out this.

Here’s a more detailed example for our Copernicus’ De revolutionibus orbium coelestium.

Not only are the boxes lovely to look at, but they also protect the books. The boxes ensure that we can continue to show off our rare books to people of all ages.

[triste-le-roy]

Illustrations and frontispiece from Denis Diderot & Jean le Rond d’Alembert’s Encyclopédie (various artists; frontispiece by Charles-Nicolas Cochin & Bonaventure-Louis Prévost, 1772).

(via Wikipedia, Pinterest, Anitpodean Books, & BldgBlog)

[thegetty]

The Encyclopédie compiled in France in the 1750s and 1760s was an attempt to capture all of the world’s knowledge. Thousands of plates like these show 18th-century trade and tech in incredible detail, including the workplaces of laborers and craftspeople to the tools and machinery of their trade.

10 volumes of prints created for the Encyclopédie have been recently digitized from the Getty Research Institute’s library collection, and you can flip through them here. A few examples: Soierie (silk factory), Passementerie (the art of making elaborate trimmings or edgings), Bouchonnier (cork making, with step-by-step disembodied hands), Métier à faire le Ruban (tools for making ribbon).