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'''''Essai d'une distribution généalogique des Sciences et des Arts principaux'''''[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Encyclop%C3%A9die_Figurative_System_of_Human_Knowledge.jpg][http://jahsonic.tumblr.com/post/49092002378/essai-dune-distribution-genealogique-des][http://www.flickr.com/photos/brittanymandalay/4971709874/] is the title of an [[illustration]] representing a [[genealogical]] [[distribution]] of [[knowledge]] based on the French ''[[Encyclopédie]]'' from 1780. It is a very large [[engraving]] designed by [[Chrétien Frédéric Guillaume Roth]] and engraved by [[Robert Bénard]], an artist who had been one of the two principal engravers of the ''Encyclopédie'' since 1754.
Measuring 985 x 635 mm, this piece, shaped like a giant plant with [[cactus]]-like leaves, was published as a fold-out [[frontispiece]] in volume 1 of [[Pierre Mouchon]]'s ''[[Table analytique et raisonnée des matières contenues dans les XXXIII volumes in-folio du Dictionnaire des sciences, des arts et des métiers]]'' and in its supplement, ''[[Supplément à l'Encyclopédie]]'' (Paris, [[Charles-Joseph Panckoucke]], 1780).
This taxonomy of human knowledge based on Diderot's ''Encyclopédie'' has also been represented by [[Jean le Rond d'Alembert]] and Diderot himself in what's called the "[[Figurative system of human knowledge]]".
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'''''Essai d'une distribution généalogique des Sciences et des Arts principaux'''''[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Encyclop%C3%A9die_Figurative_System_of_Human_Knowledge.jpg][http://jahsonic.tumblr.com/post/49092002378/essai-dune-distribution-genealogique-des][http://www.flickr.com/photos/brittanymandalay/4971709874/] is the title of an [[illustration]] representing a [[genealogical]] [[distribution]] of [[knowledge]] based on the French ''[[Encyclopédie]]'' from 1780. It is a very large [[engraving]] designed by [[Chrétien Frédéric Guillaume Roth]] and engraved by [[Robert Bénard]], an artist who had been one of the two principal engravers of the ''Encyclopédie'' since 1754.
Measuring 985 x 635 mm, this piece, shaped like a giant plant with [[cactus]]-like leaves, was published as a fold-out [[frontispiece]] in volume 1 of [[Pierre Mouchon]]'s ''[[Table analytique et raisonnée des matières contenues dans les XXXIII volumes in-folio du Dictionnaire des sciences, des arts et des métiers]]'' and in its supplement, ''[[Supplément à l'Encyclopédie]]'' (Paris, [[Charles-Joseph Panckoucke]], 1780).
This taxonomy of human knowledge based on Diderot's ''Encyclopédie'' has also been represented by [[Jean le Rond d'Alembert]] and Diderot himself in what's called the "[[Figurative system of human knowledge]]".
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