Thanks, Bernd. That could be it. Or not. My wife writes dictionaries for a
living, and knows a lot about the D'Alembert-Diderot encyclopedia, so we were
wondering about this piece by DuBut. Perhaps there is no connection at all.
Rob
www.robmackillop.net
On 21 May 2014, at 19:32, Bernd Haegemann b...@symbol4.de wrote:
It could perhaps refer to this book:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_grand_dictionaire_historique
Or may be the piece itself was estimated as highly learned?
B
On 21.05.2014 19:45, Rob MacKillop wrote:
Any background info regarding the piece on page 145 of the Saizenay
manuscript, entitled L'enciclopedie Allemande de Du But? I'm wondering
which encyclopedia might be being referred to.
My basic search with Google failed to bring up a French encyclopedia before
D'Alembert. The closest I can find is a popular science book which became
very popular in France, mid century: Pseudodoxia Epidemica by Thomas Browne,
first published in English, and which refers to itself as an encyclopedia.
But that might be way off target.
Any ideas?
Rob
www.robmackillop.net
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