A Diderot Pictorial Encyclopedia of Trades and Industry: Manufacturing and the Technical Arts in Plates Selected from "L'Encyclopédie, Ou Dictionnaire Raisonné Des Sciences, Des Arts, Et Des Métiers" of Denis Diderot, Volume 1 by Charles Coulston Gillispie, Denis Diderot

A Diderot Pictorial Encyclopedia of Trades and Industry: Manufacturing and the Technical Arts in Plates Selected from "L'Encyclopédie, Ou Dictionnaire Raisonné Des Sciences, Des Arts, Et Des Métiers" of Denis Diderot, Volume 1

Charles Coulston Gillispie, Denis Diderot

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Diderot committed his encyclopedia to publicizing trade secrets in the hope it would lead to more rational industrial processes. The plates offer, therefore, a unique and invaluable record of manufacturing and the trades just prior to the Industri...

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