The ''Encyclopedia of Yverdon'' (in French: ''Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire universel raisonné des connaissances humaines'') is an encyclopedia compiled by Fortunato Bartolomeo de Félice and published in 58 volumes from 1770 through 1780 in

Yverdon Yverdon-les-Bains () (called Eburodunum and Ebredunum during the Roman era) is a municipality in the district of Jura-Nord vaudois of the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It is the seat of the district. The population of Yverdon-les-Bains, , was ...

-les-Baines, Switzerland. The ''Encyclopedia of Yverdon'' is not as culturally French nor as philosophically skeptical of religion as the work it is based upon, the ''

Encyclopédie ''Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers'' (English: ''Encyclopedia, or a Systematic Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts, and Crafts''), better known as ''Encyclopédie'', was a general encyclopedia publis ...

'' of Diderot and

d'Alembert Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert (; ; 16 November 1717 – 29 October 1783) was a French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher, and music theorist. Until 1759 he was, together with Denis Diderot, a co-editor of the '' Encyclopé ...

. Due to these differences, the ''Encyclopedia of Yverdon'' was known as the ''Protestant encyclopedia'' and was widely distributed across Northern Europe.

Principal contributors

The Italian scholar Fortunato de Félice emigrated to Bern, Switzerland, in 1757 and finally resettled in

, Switzerland, in 1762. To advance his encyclopedia, Félice brought together more than thirty international collaborators. Fifteen of his contributors were Swiss, twelve French, three German, one Italian, and one Irish. They include: * Jean-Henri Andrié: contributed more than 4,200 articles on Geography. * Charles-Louis-François Andry *

Elie Bertrand Elie and Earlsferry is a coastal town and former royal burgh in Fife, and parish, Scotland, situated within the East Neuk beside Chapel Ness on the north coast of the Firth of Forth, eight miles east of Leven. The burgh comprised the linked vi ...

* Carlo Barletti * Louis de Bons * Jean-Henri-Nicolas Bouillet * Nicolas-Maximilien Bourgeois *

Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt (24 July 1731 – 17 October 1799) was a French chemist who synthesised the first organometalic compound. He obtained a red liquid by the reaction of potassium acetate with arsenic trioxide. This liquid is ...

* Alexandre César Chavannes * Jacques-Antoine-Henri Deleuze: contributed 1,030 articles on botany and natural history. * Johann Heinrich Samuel Formey * Henri-Sébastien Dupuy de Bordes *

Leonhard Euler Leonhard Euler ( , ; 15 April 170718 September 1783) was a Swiss mathematician, physicist, astronomer, geographer, logician and engineer who founded the studies of graph theory and topology and made pioneering and influential discoveries in ma ...

* Johann Euler * André Ferry *

Hieronymus David Gaubius Hieronymus David Gaubius (24 February 1705 – 29 November 1780) was a German physician and chemist. Life He was a native of Heidelberg. He studied medicine and sciences at the Universities of Harderwijk and Leiden, where he was a pupil of Herm ...

* Mathieu-Bernard Goudin * Gottlieb Emanuel von Haller * Albrecht von Haller * Samuel-Rodolphe Jeanneret *

Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande Joseph is a common male given name, derived from the Hebrew Yosef (יוֹסֵף). "Joseph" is used, along with "Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the mo ...

* Lecuyer * Paul-Gabriel Le Preux * Joseph Lieutaud *

Antoine Louis Antoine Louis (; 13 February 1723, Metz – 20 May 1792) was an 18th-century French surgeon and physiologist. He was originally trained in medicine by his father, a sergeant major at a local military hospital. As a young man he moved to Paris, w ...

* Archibald Maclaine *

Pierre-Joseph Macquer Pierre-Joseph Macquer (9 October 1718 – 15 February 1784) was an influential French chemist. He is known for his ''Dictionnaire de chymie'' (1766). He was also involved in practical applications, to medicine and industry, such as the French dev ...

* Gabriel Mingard * David Perrelet * Antoine Portal * Johann Rudolf Sinner * Jacob Reinhold Spielmann * Johann Christoph Erich von Springer * Vincent-Bernard de Tscharner * Paul-Joseph Vallet * Pierre-Jacques Willermoz

The ''Encyclopedia of Yverdon'' by the numbers

* published from 1770 through 1780 * 58 quarto volumes ** 42 volumes of articles ** 6 volumes of supplemental articles ** 10 volumes of plates, with 1200 figures ** about 37,378 pages * about 75,000 articles * sales: between 2,500 and 3,000 copies

Bibliography

* * Donato, Clorinda et Doig, Kathleen, ''Notices sur les auteurs des quarante-huit volumes de "Discours" de l'Encyclopédie d'Yverdon'', '' Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie'', 1991, n° 11, p. 133-141. * Jean-Daniel Candaux, Alain Cernuschi et al., ''L'encyclopédie d'Yverdon et sa résonance européenne : contextes, contenus, continuités'', Genève, Slatkine, 2005 * Léonard Burnand, Alain Cernuschi, ''Circulation de matériaux entre l'Encyclopédie d'Yverdon et quelques dictionnaires spécialisés''. In : '' Dix-huitième siècle'', 2006, n° 38 (), p. 253 à 267

References

External links

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