Encyclopedie v.3.(End Note)(Denis Diderot)

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Denis Diderot's grand intellectual experiment of the Enlightenment, to create a compendium of all the world's knowledge in one place, was an attempt to democratize knowledge and make it available to all. Today his life's work, or at least 27 volumes of it, the Encyclopedie, would easily fit on a flash drive that could disappear in a pocket with your change or keys. While creating their monumental work, the 18th Century French philosopher and his editors endured 20 years of harassment and persecution as they were periodically shut down by the courts and others who understood ...

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