The Tree of Knowledge: d'Alembert and the Encyclopedia
Exhibition organized by the Montpellier InterUniversity Library, the University of Montpellier, and the Montpellier Academy of Sciences and Letters
Date: November17–December 22, 2017 (open to the public) and January 9–February 3, 2018
Hours: Tuesday toSaturday, 1:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Location: Tékné Makré exhibition rooms, on the ground floor of the Faculty of Medicine
Contact:biu-patrimoine-bumedecine@umontpellier.fr
Tel:04 34 43 35 80
Group visits upon request, until February 16
Poster
Catalog
The Tree of Knowledge: Encyclopedia, Enlightenment, d'Alembert, and the Evolution of Science. Exhibition catalog (2017), 32 pages. Free
The Montpellier Interuniversity Library (Written and Graphic Heritage Department), the University of Montpellier,and the Montpellier Academy of Sciences and Letters are presentingan exhibition that extends and complements the symposium "Science, Enlightenment, and Humanism from d'Alembert to Today" organized by the Academy on November 16 and 17, 2017.
Seeking to evoke, through the figure of d'Alembert, whose tercentenary will be marked in November 2017, encyclopedism, science, and the arts, the exhibition will include a rich selection of ancient documents, scientific objects fromthe 18thto the 21st centuries, art drawings, etc. from the collections of the universities of Montpellier, whose heritage is particularly rich in this field.
It is organized into two parts:
- D'Alembert,the Encyclopédie, and its legacy, the Montpellier encyclopedists, and the Royal Society of Sciences
- The emergence of branches of knowledge in the era of d'Alembert and the Encyclopédie: philosophy, art, chemistry, botany, music, mechanics, and astronomy (illustrating the conference presentations).
Photo credits: University of Montpellier / SCDI Montpellier – photography department