Science Fair Project Encyclopedia Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire
raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers ("Encyclopedia,
or Reasoned Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts, and Crafts") was
an early encyclopedia, published in France beginning in 1751,
the final volumes being released in 1772. From 1782 to 1832 an
expanded edition of the work was published in 66 volumes. That
work, enormous for the time, occupied a thousand workers in
production and 2,250 contributors. The run of the press was
4,250 copies — a ridiculous number for the present but very
large for the 18th century where editions rarely exceeded 1,500
copies. One of the greatest and most remarkable literary
enterprises of the 18th century, the famous Encyclopédie
originated in a French translation of Ephraim Chambers's
Cyclopaedia, begun in 1743 and finished in 1745 by John Mills,
an Englishman resident in France, assisted by Gottfried Sellius
, a native of Gdańsk, who, after being a professor at Halle and
Göttingen, and residing in the Netherlan