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The Encyclopédie
25 minutes
Color
Recommended audience age range 18 - adult
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Availability:
This title is no longer available from the Roland Collection
Additional information
Order number: 322
The Encyclopédie, probably the greatest single enterprise of the Enlightenment, was published in France between 1751 and 1772 and edited by Diderot and d'Alembert. Giles Barber, Curator of the Taylorian Institution, Oxford, looks at the intentions of its editors, the problems associated with its publication and the importance of its illustrative plates. Robert Fox, Professor of the History of Science, University of Oxford, discusses the emphasis in the Encyclopédie on science and technology, and Christopher Lawrence of the Wellcome Institute talks about the attitudes to medicine and surgery shown by the writers of the Encyclopédie.
Credits -
Director
Robert Philip
Presenters
Giles Barber
Robert Fox
Christopher Lawrence
Open University/BBC
