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Dear all
the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers was perhaps the first encyclopedia ever publised from 1751 up to 1772 under the authority of two important men: Diderot and D’Alembert.
In mechanical engineering, we all know of Jean le Rond D'Alembert, since he is the one who wrote his principle which would allow the modern application of Newton´s third law to rigid body dynamics.
Being an great intellectual figure of his time, he paired with the famous writer Denis Diderot and they edited this great and extensive work called the Encyclopédie introducing a new liberal vision to knowledge dessimination which not always get the approaval of their era control freaks portrayed by the official censure being run by the king and the archbishops
Now, some of the best academics of two countries have decided to join strenghts to launch an ambitious project to bring a wealth of books to the public. One of them deals with the digitization of this Encyclopédie and to make it available on-line to all since it is essential that this document remains in the public domain as mankind´s patrimony in the true original sense of Universal knowledge defended by the existence of Universities.
This project is called the Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL) .
Extract from the project website:
The Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL) is a cooperative enterprise of the Laboratoire ATILF (Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française) of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), the Division of the Humanities, the Division of the Social Sciences, and Electronic Text Services (ETS) of the University of Chicago.
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/ARTFL/
I would like to warmly salute these people great contribution to this consevration project.
Best regards
Luc Rolland
the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers was perhaps the first encyclopedia ever publised from 1751 up to 1772 under the authority of two important men: Diderot and D’Alembert.
In mechanical engineering, we all know of Jean le Rond D'Alembert, since he is the one who wrote his principle which would allow the modern application of Newton´s third law to rigid body dynamics.
Being an great intellectual figure of his time, he paired with the famous writer Denis Diderot and they edited this great and extensive work called the Encyclopédie introducing a new liberal vision to knowledge dessimination which not always get the approaval of their era control freaks portrayed by the official censure being run by the king and the archbishops
Now, some of the best academics of two countries have decided to join strenghts to launch an ambitious project to bring a wealth of books to the public. One of them deals with the digitization of this Encyclopédie and to make it available on-line to all since it is essential that this document remains in the public domain as mankind´s patrimony in the true original sense of Universal knowledge defended by the existence of Universities.
This project is called the Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL) .
Extract from the project website:
The Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL) is a cooperative enterprise of the Laboratoire ATILF (Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française) of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), the Division of the Humanities, the Division of the Social Sciences, and Electronic Text Services (ETS) of the University of Chicago.
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/ARTFL/
I would like to warmly salute these people great contribution to this consevration project.
Best regards
Luc Rolland
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