Subject: L'enciclopedie - Du But

From: Rob MacKillop <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 18:45:57 +0100

Any background info regarding the piece on page 145 of the Saizenay manuscript, entitled "L'enciclopedie Allemande de Du But"? I'm wondering which encyclopedia might be being referred to. 
My basic search with Google failed to bring up a French encyclopedia before D'Alembert. The closest I can find is a popular science book which became very popular in France, mid century: Pseudodoxia Epidemica by Thomas Browne, first published in English, and which refers to itself as an encyclopedia. But that might be way off target.

Any ideas?

Rob

www.robmackillop.net

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From: Bernd Haegemann <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 20:32:59 +0200

It could perhaps refer to this book:

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_grand_dictionaire_historique

Or may be the piece itself was estimated as highly learned?

B

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From: Rob MacKillop <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 21:29:08 +0100

Thanks, Bernd. That could be it. Or not. My wife writes dictionaries for a living, and knows a lot about the D'Alembert-Diderot encyclopedia, so we were wondering about this piece by DuBut. Perhaps there is no connection at all. 

Rob

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