The Encyclopédie (In Our Time)
1751 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the French encyclopédie, the European Enlightenment in book form. One of its editors, D’Alembert, described its mission as giving an overview of knowledge, as if gazing down on a vast labyrinth of all the branches of human ideas, observing where they separate or unite and even catching sight of the secret routes between them.
On these timelines: In Our Time (BBC podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1751
- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- French Revolution (1789)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)
- American Revolution (1775)
- American Revolutionary War (1775)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769)
- Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776)
- Watt's separate-condenser steam engine patent (1769)