Translation and Transfer of Knowledge in Encyclopedic Compilations : 1680-1830

With a focus on the economic, social, and political impetus for producing monuments to knowledge, this volume recognizes the encyclopedic compilation as the quintessential tool of enlightenment knowledge transfer. From its modern origins in seventeenth-century France, encyclopedic compilations met t...

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Other Authors: Donato, Clorinda (Editor), Lüsebrink, Hans-Jürgen (Editor)
Format: eBook
Published: University of Toronto Press 2021
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