Description
Book SynopsisThe last of the great Enlightenment encyclopedias, Charles Joseph Panckoucke’s
Encyclopédie méthodique was originally conceived as an innovative revision of the
Encyclopédie and the
Supplément.
Trade ReviewReviews'This book represents an important contribution to a growing body of scholarship comparing Diderot and d’Alembert’s Encyclopédie and its successor, Charles-Joseph Panckoucke’s Encyclopédie methodique.'
French studiesReviews'Doig has captured in this book the very spirit of Panckoucke’s massive encyclopedia […]. She demonstrates with perspicacity and depth not only how the great Méthodique was written, but more importantly, how it should be read and, in turn, understood.'
SHARP News
'Kathleen Hardesty Doig has produced the first monograph studying the Encyclopédie méthodique in its entirety. [...] applying qualitative and quantitative comparisons of content, [she] is more concerned with the Méthodique’s textuality than with its materiality.'
The British journal for the history of science‘Doig has produced an imposing empirical study whose large amount of detail makes it an indispensable tool for future studies of the Encyclopédie méthodique’.
New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century‘This deeply researched work explores the construction of Panckoucke's innovative enterprise. It sheds new light on the emergence and development of the disciplines as well as their respective boundaries and interrelations. The breadth of Kathleen Doig’s scholarship is remarkable.’
Robert J. Morrissey, University of Chicago
Table of ContentsIntroduction
1. Mathematics and physics
2. Medicine, anatomy and chemistry
3. Agriculture and the natural sciences
4. History and geography
5. Theology, philosophy, grammar and literature
6. Law and political economy
7. The military arts
8. The fine arts, architecture and music
9. The mechanical arts
10. Miscellaneous subjects
Conclusion
List of dictionaries of the
Encyclopédie méthodiqueBibliography
Index
