Le Dictionnaire des arts et des sciences

work compiled by Corneille

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In encyclopaedia: Encyclopaedic dictionaries
…and the immediate follow-up by Le Dictionnaire des arts et des sciences (1694) by the writer Thomas Corneille (the younger brother of the playwright Pierre Corneille) were sufficient to indicate the growing public interest in a more modern form of encyclopaedia. This indication was confirmed by the successful publication of…
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In encyclopaedia: The development of the modern encyclopaedia (17th–18th centuries)
…of Thomas Corneille to compile Le Dictionnaire des arts et des sciences (1694), with its thorough and authoritative treatment of these new encyclopaedic features, demonstrated that even the more conservative scholars were by now keenly aware that a new spirit had arisen. The period of the clerical encyclopaedia had ended,…
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