Le Dictionnaire des arts et des sciences
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Le Dictionnaire des arts et des sciences was an encyclopaedic dictionary compiled by Thomas Corneille, published in 1694. This work was part of a trend in the 17th and 18th centuries towards encyclopaedias that focused on the arts and sciences, distinguishing them from those that primarily covered history and biography.1
Thomas Corneille, a French dramatist and the younger brother of playwright Pierre Corneille, also helped compile an encyclopaedic dictionary for the Académie Française. The publication of Le Dictionnaire des arts et des sciences indicated a growing public interest in a more modern form of encyclopaedia, a trend also seen with John Harris's Lexicon Technicum (1704).21
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Read More…and the immediate follow-up by Le Dictionnaire des arts et des sciences (1694) by the writer Thomas Corneille (the younger brother of the playwright Pierre Corneille) were sufficient to indicate the growing public interest in a more modern form of encyclopaedia. This indication was confirmed by the successful publication of…
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…of Thomas Corneille to compile Le Dictionnaire des arts et des sciences (1694), with its thorough and authoritative treatment of these new encyclopaedic features, demonstrated that even the more conservative scholars were by now keenly aware that a new spirit had arisen. The period of the clerical encyclopaedia had ended,…
Read More…of Thomas Corneille to compile Le Dictionnaire des arts et des sciences (1694), with its thorough and authoritative treatment of these new encyclopaedic features, demonstrated that even the more conservative scholars were by now keenly aware that a new spirit had arisen. The period of the clerical encyclopaedia had ended,…
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