The Encyclopédie, a Vision of the Enlightenment

Author: Florimond Krins

February 28, 2026

In our digital and information age, it is hard to imagine a time when knowledge was not so easy to access and only the most privileged had a right to a decent education. In the pre-industrial times of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, there had been many scholars and ‘natural philosophers’ who created great works that attempted to compile some of the knowledge of the time, a knowledge that was [...]

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