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Does anyone know how to find the *captions* for the plates in Diderot's Encyclopedie

http://diderot.alembert.free.fr/

It seems to me that I found them once before, but I can't find them now.

Thanks,

Mac

OK, so here's the scoop.... You go to the index of the plates

http://diderot.alembert.free.fr/PLANCHES/index.html

(don't ask me how to get there from any other page on the site; I just stumbled on it, and have not yet figured out how)

If you click on the big box that says PicLens 3D you can see a slide show of all the plates or view any of them in HTML. This is convenient, but you can not see the captions from there.

Instead, you must chose a plate volume number and click on "telechargez" (download?). Voila! This will get you a (massive) PDF of the entire plate volume chosen, including the captions. So far as I can tell, there is no way to know which volume contains what, but they are alphabetical. As it happens, the "potier d'etain" (pewterer) is in volume VIII, but I had to look at a couple of other volumes to figure it out.

It's not a well designed web site, but it contains wall to wall goodies.

Mac

What are you planning on making Mac?

Something mechanical perhaps?

babelfish will translate entire web pages...


that might help......