Perhaps it is the innocence of Jimmy Whale, Wikipedia’s founder, or perhaps it is an innocence shared by all the Wikipedia editors. Either way, Wikipedia is surrounded by a sweet optimism that is at odds with the reality of the actual …
Category: Encyclopédie
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I’ve been reading about the French Encyclopédie of Diderot and d’Alembert, in the lovely illustrated Gallimard Decouvertes volume authored by Francois Moureau, which he entitles Le roman vrai de l’Encyclopédie [ The real novel of the Encyclopedia], first published 1990). …
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Every reference editor in the world dreams of writing the following entry. Lost in the middle of a vast multi-volume encyclopedia, who would notice such an innocent-seeming entry? But it reveals the circularity of so much reference publishing.
…AGUAXIMA, (Hist.