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Translation and transfer of knowledge in encyclopedic compilations, 1680-1830
Donato, ClorindaLüsebrink, Hans-Jürgen

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 the need for the dissemination of information in a more flexible format, one that eschewed the lim…

Edition
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ISBN/ISSN
9781487539269
Collation
vii, 374 p. : ill.
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Call Number
030.9 DON t