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ENCYCLOPEDIE

ENCYCLOPEDIE
The word encyclopedia comes from the Koine Greek ἐγκύκλιος παιδεία, transliterated enkyklios paideia, meaning "general education" from enkyklios(ἐγκύκλιος), meaning "circular, recurrent, required regularly, general and paideia (παιδεία), meaning "education, rearing of a child" it was reduced to a single word due to an error by copyists of Latin manuscripts. Together, the phrase literally translates as "complete instruction" or "complete knowledge". (Source Wikipedia)

. . . first published in France between 1751 and 1765 and best known as the “Encyclopedie,’ which endeavored to summarize all human knowledge in its 18,000 pages of text, 75,000 different entries, and 20 million words. Its primary editor, Denis Diderot, was one of the heroes of the Enlightenment and indeed the ‘Encyclopedie’ reprsents a culmination of Enlightenment thought which valued reason, science and progress what we know -- above all else . . . Page 5 “HOMO MYSTERIOUS” Author David P. Barash, Phd
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 Dinesh
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The essence of the Zeitgeist of the first part of the eighteenth century is a spirit of improvement. On the continent this spirit was exemplified by the success of the 'Encyclopedie,' whose articles ranged from agricultural topics to history and the new sciences. Under the editorship of Denis Diderot, in collaboration with Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, the most brilliant scholars of the age were commissioned to write articles The Encyclopaedia eventually amounted to elelven volumes, with a further ten of illustrations. The scientific, philosophical and technical articles that it contained defined the age, and the work was reprinted in ever more accessible formats in France, Italy, Switzerland and Spain. ~ Page 201
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 Dinesh
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The Golden Thread The Story of Writing
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 Dinesh
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Depictions came early, but diagrams came late, perhaps surprising because representations of space, time, events, and number came early. The turning point for diagrams was a principled set of diagrams in the ambitious and remarkable oeuvre edited by Diderot and d’Alembert, the ‘Encyclop0edia,’ or a ‘Systematic Dictrionary of the Sciences, Arts, and Craft,’ affectionately known as ‘L’Encyclopedie.’ It was printed and published in secret over some twenty years in the late eighteenth century under the shadow of the political and social upheavals that preceded the French Revolution. It is regarded as epitomizing eighteenth century Enlightenment values. The subtitle of a recent book of the topic put them perfectly: reason, science, humanism, and progress. `Page 221 ~ Excerpt "Mind in Motion" ~ Barbara Tversky
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 Dinesh
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MIND IN MOTION
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