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The last of the great Enlightenment encyclopedias, Charles Joseph
Panckoucke's Encyclopedie methodique was originally conceived as an
innovative revision of the Encyclopedie and the Supplement.
Arranged in a series of subject-specific dictionaries, it began to
appear in 1782 and was completed 50 years later, boasting 203
volumes of text and plates produced by many eminent editors and
contributors. Kathleen Hardesty Doig's book is the first to compare
the genealogy of the Methodique with its predecessors as a means to
understanding Panchoucke's original vision for his work. Through
careful examination of each volume of the Methodique, the author
explores for instance: how Diderot's materialist, anti-clerical
articles were scrupulously preserved; how new contributions on
religious topics, written by a renowned French theologian, provided
a counter-balancing apology of Catholicism; how subjects were
augmented or radically transformed, particularly in the sciences
where articles reflect groundbreaking research in chemistry and
medicine; how these changes illuminate the editors' original goal
of an encyclopedia designed to present information in an accessible
format to specialists and amateurs alike.
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