Encyclopédie
Diderot's plates, then and now
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Connections
An engraved plate from Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie (1762-1772), the book that put the needle maker and the sand caster next to philosophy, with one line about the craft. Self-contained, no account or key: add it to a playlist and you are done. Every refresh brings a new plate; the plugin's refresh rate sets how often.
Plates courtesy of the ARTFL Encyclopédie Project, University of Chicago; the engravings are in the public domain. The lines are new text written for this plugin from each plate and its original legend, they are not quotations.
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