The unfinished Enlightenment : description in the age of the encyclopedia / Joanna Stalnaker.

In The Unfinished Enlightenment, Joanna Stalnaker offers a fresh look at the French Enlightenment by focusing on the era's vast, collective attempt to compile an ongoing and provisional description of the world. Through a series of readings of natural histories, encyclopedias, scientific poetry...

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Main Author: Stalnaker, Joanna
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Language:English
Published: Ithaca [N.Y.] : Cornell University Press, 2010.
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505 0 |a Buffon and Daubenton's two horses -- Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's strawberry plant -- Diderot's word machine -- Delille's little encyclopedia -- Mercier's unframed Paris -- Description in revolution -- Conclusion : virtual encyclopedias. 
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