Diderot’s Encyclopedia Exhibit preview
Below are some of the pieces that are part of the “Technology and Enlightenment: The Mechanical Arts in Diderot’s Encyclopedia” exhibit. You can click on the images for a larger view with details, or use the menu to browse the exhibit content.
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- Casting an equestrian figure
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- Ribbonmaking
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- Cork Maker
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- Cutler
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- Plumassier and Maker of Panaches
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- Letterpress Printing: Typesetting
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- Papetterie (Paper Mill)
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- Mineralogy: Quarrying slate in the Meuse Valley
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- Wigs
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- Wigmaker-Barber Shop
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- Plate I: Shop and tools of the Wigmaker-Barber
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- Plate II: Shaving and hairdressing
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- Plate III: Hairweaving
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- Plate IV: Baking oven and wig preparation
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- Plate V: Patterns for various styles of men’s wigs
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- Plate VI: Patterns and tools for women’s wigs
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- Plate VII: Wigs
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- Plate VIII: Wigs
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- Plate IX: Steambath rooms
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- Plate X: Commercial bathing boat on the Seine River, established 1761
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- Plate XI: Commercial bathing boat on the Seine
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- Plate XII: Details of steam baths
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- Weaving braid
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- Title Page
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- Surgery
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- Bookbindings
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- Decorative ornament on title page
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- Frontispiece
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- Tree of Knowledge
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- Title page
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- Passementerie
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- Intaglio printing
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- Dyeing at the Gobelins Factory: Dyers’ workshop and different steps in the textile dyeing process
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- Low-loom tapestry weaving at the Gobelins Factory: Workshop and the various actions of workers on the looms
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- Needle Makers
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- Cork maker
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- Cutler
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- Workers in Ornamental Feathers
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- Letterpress printing and typesetting
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- Mining: Quarrying slate in the Meuse Valley: Different plans, cross-sections and elevations of the slate mines.
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- Papermill: View of the l’Anglée Factory near Montargis and of the water-wheel powering one of the mills
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- Fishing: making nets
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- Weaving braid
