Author Topic: Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers  (Read 2155 times)

Offline sanne137

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I love looking through this encyclopedia. It contains plates and information about a lot of interesting topics (https://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/did/title_plate/W.html)

But these are the plates I wanted to show you:

Writing
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0001.403

Original French text including plates
http://artflsrv02.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.18:48.encyclopedie0513

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Very, very, very cool!!!

Thanks so much for sharing, that is really fun! I've been increasing in curiosity about quills and there's nothing like finding a source from that time.

And the examples of the various scripts is just super-bonus!

Thanks again
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This is terrific. Lots to study here. Thanks.

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Oooh la la! Thank you for sharing. So much to take in!  :)
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Thank you for sharing the link to this encyclopedia. I love the lettering plates, but there is so much more to explore. Hmm...laundry and sweeping will just have to wait their turn  ::)
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Very, very, very cool!!!

Thanks so much for sharing, that is really fun! I've been increasing in curiosity about quills and there's nothing like finding a source from that time.

And the examples of the various scripts is just super-bonus!

Thanks again
Andrew

I would love to see what you do with it Andrew :)