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pensée et culture de l’époque moderne Lumières science et littérature disciplinarité épistémologie Early modern culture Enlightenment culture science and literature disciplinarity epistemology Philosophy PHI016000 FOR HPCDSujets proches
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Seth Rudy, « ‘The Whole Set to View’: Orders of Knowledge in Chambers’ Cyclopaedia », Presses universitaires de Strasbourg, ID : 10670/1.qyzulb
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In his 1726 ‘Proposals for printing by subscription, Cyclopaedia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences’, Ephraim Chambers wrote that the ‘system’ of references in his projected work would finally ‘set to view’ the whole of human learning by enabling the many parts of knowledge scattered by alphabetical order to be put back together into a complete circle of arts and sciences. That system became the basis of a generic and hiera...