•Denis
Diderot helped translate
the English Cyclopedia into French
Frontspiece
to the Encyclopédie
Perhaps
the most notable achievement of the philosophes as a group was the
17-volume Encyclopédie, known in English as
Encyclopedia: The Rational Dictionary of the Sciences, the Arts, and the
Crafts.In 1745, French publisher André le Breton asked
writer Denis Diderot to help him translate the seminal English Cyclopedia
into French. Diderot served as co-editor of the project along with
mathematician Jean Le Rond d’Alembert.
