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The Unfinished Enlightenment : Description in the Age of the Encyclopedia /
In The Unfinished Enlightenment, Joanna Stalnaker offers a fresh look at the French Enlightenment by focusing on the era's vast, collective attempt to compile an ongoing and provisional description of the world. Through a series of readings of natural histories, encyclopedias, scientific poetry...
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Ithaca [N.Y.] :
Cornell University Press,
2010.
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