Thanks, Bernd. That could be it. Or not. My wife writes dictionaries for a living, and knows a lot about the D'Alembert-Diderot encyclopedia, so we were wondering about this piece by DuBut. Perhaps there is no connection at all.
Rob www.robmackillop.net > On 21 May 2014, at 19:32, Bernd Haegemann <b...@symbol4.de> wrote: > > It could perhaps refer to this book: > > http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_grand_dictionaire_historique > > Or may be the piece itself was estimated as highly learned? > > B > >> On 21.05.2014 19:45, Rob MacKillop wrote: >> Any background info regarding the piece on page 145 of the Saizenay >> manuscript, entitled "L'enciclopedie Allemande de Du But"? I'm wondering >> which encyclopedia might be being referred to. >> My basic search with Google failed to bring up a French encyclopedia before >> D'Alembert. The closest I can find is a popular science book which became >> very popular in France, mid century: Pseudodoxia Epidemica by Thomas Browne, >> first published in English, and which refers to itself as an encyclopedia. >> But that might be way off target. >> >> Any ideas? >> >> Rob >> >> www.robmackillop.net >> >> >> >> To get on or off this list see list information at >> http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >
