Diderot's Encyclopedie

Mac · Post by **Mac** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 2:55 pm

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

Mac · Post by **Mac** » Mon Nov 17, 2008 11:25 am

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

Andrew Young · Post by **Andrew Young** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 7:35 pm

What are you planning on making Mac?

Something mechanical perhaps?

Baron Conal · Post by **Baron Conal** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 8:21 pm

babelfish will translate entire web pages...

that might help......