The Louvre was not the only French museum to be pillaged on Sunday. With the nation already in an uproar over the broad-daylight heist of French crown jewels that morning, a robbery unfolded that on ...

The theft of French crown jewels overshadowed the robbery of some $100,000 worth of historical coins from a museum dedicated to philosopher Denis Diderot.

China publishes Wednesday for the first time photocopies of the world's earliest and greatest encyclopedia -- the Yongle Canon. The Yongle Canon was compiled between AD 1403 and AD 1407 in the Ming ...

THE EMBATTLED PHILOSOPHER (442 pp.) —Lester G. Crocker—Michigan State College ($6.50). French Philosopher Denis Diderot had the intellectual brilliance that sparkled in an 18th century drawing room, ...

BOOKS review of “A Diderot Encyclopedia of Trades and Industry” (Dover) edited by C.C. Gillispie, and “A History of Technology” (Oxford) edited by Charles Singer, et al. The Everyday Dramas of ...

Denis Diderot, a French writer, philosopher and encyclopedist, became famous for his significant contributions to the literature and philosophy of the Enlightenment in the 18th century. His best-known ...

15 October 1750 marks a milestone in the history of illustration and the spread of knowledge. On that day, two leading French philosophers, Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d’Alembert, began work on ...

In a YouTube video called “Teens React to Encyclopedias,” one kid comes up with the definition of encyclopedia as “the internet in books”; another says that “it was Google way back in the day. . . it ...

18th century illustration of workshop for damascening. The art of chasing surfaces of steel with gold or silver patterns so as to make metalic mosaic, called after city of Damascus. Published in ...