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The University of Michigan's collaborative translation of Diderot and d'Alembert's Encylopédie has completed some 650 selections from the Enlightenment keystone, including articles on California, vanilla, werewolves, the English language, beauty, and the complete structure of human knowledge.
The project has an open call for translators to help with the 74,000 remaining articles.
The project has an open call for translators to help with the 74,000 remaining articles.
It appears they already had furries back then:
"A man," he says, "by means of unbridled imagination falls into the madness of believing that he turns into a wolf each night. This disordered imagination cannot help but make him perform such actions as wolves do or are supposed to do...
posted by Dr Dracator at 1:37 PM on September 1, 2009
"A man," he says, "by means of unbridled imagination falls into the madness of believing that he turns into a wolf each night. This disordered imagination cannot help but make him perform such actions as wolves do or are supposed to do...
posted by Dr Dracator at 1:37 PM on September 1, 2009
On a more serious note, the werewolf entry is well worth reading: They didn't call it the Enlightenment for nothing.
posted by Dr Dracator at 1:40 PM on September 1, 2009
posted by Dr Dracator at 1:40 PM on September 1, 2009
Yeah, Malebranche's takedown of the werewolf mysticism is a beauty.
posted by darkstar at 2:10 PM on September 1, 2009
posted by darkstar at 2:10 PM on September 1, 2009
Yeah, Malebranche's takedown of the werewolf mysticism is a beauty.
Eh, if he'd written it today he'd have people screaming at him and calling him a skeptical jerk.
posted by Pope Guilty at 4:18 PM on September 1, 2009
Eh, if he'd written it today he'd have people screaming at him and calling him a skeptical jerk.
posted by Pope Guilty at 4:18 PM on September 1, 2009
The project has an open call for translators
Volunteered. I love the Encyclopédie, and will cheerfully put in some spadework.
It seems remarkable it's never been translated.
It does, yes, although perhaps less so if you consider the original project was itself to be a translation of Ephraim Chambers' 1728 Cyclopaedia.
posted by Wolof at 5:00 PM on September 1, 2009
Volunteered. I love the Encyclopédie, and will cheerfully put in some spadework.
It seems remarkable it's never been translated.
It does, yes, although perhaps less so if you consider the original project was itself to be a translation of Ephraim Chambers' 1728 Cyclopaedia.
posted by Wolof at 5:00 PM on September 1, 2009
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I'm pretty sure this is Pat Buchanan's definition of California, too. Berkeley, at any rate. Sweet find, thanks for sharing.
posted by joe lisboa at 1:20 PM on September 1, 2009 [4 favorites]