Encyclopedists or bunch of middle aged french philosophers (and old man Voltaire) decided to make a book that will stirr up way more drama between them than expected. And become an annoyance for king and clergy.

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Encyclopedists or bunch of middle aged french philosophers (and old man Voltaire) decided to make a book that will stirr up way more drama between them than expected. And become an annoyance for king and clergy.
Salvor Hardin, first of the great line of...
ENCYCLOPEDIA GALACTICA
A moodboard request for @enlitment
Lewis Pirenne was busily engaged at his desk
THE ENCYCLOPEDISTS
TERMINUS–... Its location (see map) was an odd one for the role it was called upon to play in Galactic history, and yet as many writers have never tired of pointing out, an inevitable one. Located on the very fringe of the Galactic spiral, an only planet of an isolated sun, poor in resources and negligible in economic value, it was never settled in the five centuries after its discovery, until the landing of the Encyclopedists.... It was inevitable that as a new generation grew, Terminus would become something more than an appendage of the psychohistorians of Trantor.
ENCYCLOPEDIA GALACTICA