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Lettres di Noverre nel Veneto: l’Encyclopédie méthodique e la «Gazzetta Urbana Veneta»
Danza e Ricerca, 2021 This article examines the Italian translations of the articles on dance published in the Encyclopédie méthodique edited by Charles-Joseph Panckoucke (1736-1798), which includes excerpts of Jean-Georges Noverre’s Lettres sur la danse.
Olivia Sabee
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Civiltà materiale del XVIII secolo nelle voci dell'Encyclopédie [PDF]
Laboratorio dell'ISPF, 2020 Diderot and D'Alembert's Encyclopédie used to give the same importance both to practical and to theoretical knowledge, according to a typical attitude of the Enlightenment. Historiography has sometimes undervalued this heritage. Today, with the scholars'
Gaia Bruno
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Le vie della mimesis tra teatro e musica in Jean-Jacques Rousseau: storia di un apparente paradosso
Antropologia e Teatro, 2021 Theatre and opera in Rousseau’s works deserve radically different treatments. Although the citoyen de Génève recognizes interest and imitation as common principles to both forms of art, the nature of theatrical and musical imitation sets them apart.
Maria Semi
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Science Museum Group Journal, 2020 In response to Robert Bud’s historical inquiry of applied science, this paper discusses whether it has been adopted in France. I argue that although the term was occasionally used in France it has never been successful because of the prestige of arts in ...
Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent
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Flamme, 2021 Dans le récit d’un voyage qu’il fait en terre natale, Voyage à Bourbonne et à Langres (1770), Diderot se prend à rêver, en commentant les origines souterraines du thermalisme local, aux dimensions gigantesques du globe terrestre, à ses interconnexions ...
Odile Richard
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The French Reference: Architecture and Architects in the Encyclopédie
Cuadernos Dieciochistas, 2017 This text focuses on the presence of architectural issues and related questions in Diderot and D’Alembert’s Encyclopédie. This presence is irregular and non-systematic, as is the Encyclopédie itself, with its plurality of voices, but precisely for this ...
Juan CALATRAVA
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Académies et encyclopédies : l’exemple méconnu d’une académie des sciences à Lyon (1736-1758)
Cahiers d’histoire, 2017 On sait que l’Encyclopédie a été liée à l’Académie des sciences de Paris et à quelques autres, notamment à celle de Montpellier. On connaît moins les liens avec celles de Lyon. Or, il a existé à Lyon une académie des sciences, entre 1736 et 1758, sous le
Pierre Crépel
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From Diderot’s Encyclopedia to Wales’ Wikipedia: A brief history of collecting and sharing knowledge [PDF]
Časopis Ksio, 2018 Collecting and sharing knowledge are activities which are almost as important as creating knowledge. Yet, the ideas of collecting and sharing knowledge have changed over time, reflecting society’s needs.
Miloš Todorović
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L'abbé Rive ou l'homme-bibliothèque : une « physiologie » provençale
Babel: Littératures Plurielles, 2002 Il existe diverses sortes d'êtres humains. Mais l'une des plus singulières et qui aurait mérité une des "physiologies" de l'Age romantique est celle que l'on pourrait qualifier d'homme-bibliothèque; non pas un homme qui est à lui seul une bibliothèque ...
François Moureau
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'This New Conquering Empire of Light and Reason:' Edmund Burke, James Gillray, and the Dangers of Enlightenment [PDF]
, 2014 This article examines the use of images of “light” and “enlightenment” in Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France and in the controversy that greeted the book, with an emphasis on caricatures of Burke and his book by James Gillray and ...
Schmidt, James
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