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SUBJECTS
Story of Civilization
Knowledge
Encyclopedia

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0606 - Summary/Objective
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060701 - Follow up ref SDS 1 8403.
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060703 - Received a CD on The Story of Civilization to support research on the
060704 - meaning of knowledge which is addressed in part in the section on the
060705 - encyclopedia, discussed with Ross on 940510. ref SDS 1 8403
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060708 - Background on alphabet technology is reported on 940609. ref SDS 2
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060712 - Diderot published the encyclopedia after a 20 year project from 1746
060713 - to 1765, when it was hailed as:
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060715 -    The ˙Encyclopedie,  said the Roman Catholic critic Brunetiere, "is
060716 -    the great affair of its time, the goal to which everything
060717 -    preceding it was tending, the origin of everything that has
060718 -    followed it, and consequently the true center for any history of
060719 -    ideas in the eighteenth century."`091921
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060721 -    "It belonged only to a philosophical century to attempt an
060722 -    encyclopedia," said Diderot.
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060725 - So far I have not figured how to cite this document, i.e what page,
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