Controversy over a section praising the practice of Socinianism in Geneva caused the resignation of one of the men involved in the publication of this work, which was later supplemented by Charles Panckoucke.
Controversy over a section praising the practice of Socinianism in Geneva caused the resignation of one of the men involved in the publication of this work, which was later supplemented by Charles Panckoucke. Its major illustrations are a frontispiece, showing a scene of dark clouds that recede to reveal sunlight as a thinly-cloaked women has her veil pulled away to symbolize the exposure of Truth, and a diagram with columns entitled Memory, Reason, and Imagination, showing a hierarchy of Human Knowledge. That chart, based on the "Division of the Sciences" made by Bacon, is elucidated in the Preliminary Discourse to this work, which was originally commissioned for the Abbe Gua de Malves and originated out of efforts to translate a similarly- titled Ephraim Chambers work into French. FTP, Jean d'Alembert co-edited what vast compendium of knowledge organized by Denis Diderot?
Controversy over a section praising the practice of Socinianism in Geneva caused the resignation of one of the men involved in the publication of this work, which was later supplemented by Charles Panckoucke.
{Encyclopedia} or {Encyclopedie} (d’Alembert was the one who resigned over the Geneva article)  {Mad King Ludwig Memorial History Tournament}