The Tree of Knowledge: d’Alembert and the *Encyclopédie*
Exhibition organized by the Montpellier Interuniversity Library, the University of Montpellier, and the Montpellier Academy of Sciences and Letters
Dates: November 17–December 22, 2017 (open to all) and January 9–February 3, 2018
Hours: Tuesday throughSaturday, 1:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Location: Tékné Makré exhibition halls, on the ground floor of the Faculty of Medicine
Contact:biu-patrimoine-bumedecine@umontpellier.fr
Phone:04 34 43 35 80
Group tours available upon request through February 16
Poster
Catalog
The Tree of Knowledge: Encyclopedia, the Enlightenment, d’Alembert, and the Evolution of Science. Exhibition catalog (2017), 32 pages. Free
The Montpellier Interuniversity Library (Department of Written and Graphic Heritage), the University of Montpellier,and the Montpellier Academy of Sciences and Letters are presentingan exhibition that builds upon and complements the symposium “Science, the Enlightenment, and Humanism: From d’Alembert to the Present,” organized by the Academy on November 16 and 17, 2017.
Seeking to highlight—through the figure of d’Alembert, whose 300th anniversary will be marked in November 2017—encyclopedic scholarship, the sciences, and the arts, the exhibition will feature a rich selection of historical documents, scientific artifacts fromthe 18thto the 21st centuries, artistic drawings, and more. These items come from the collections of the universities of Montpellier, whose heritage is particularly rich in this field.
It is divided into two parts:
- D’Alembert,the *Encyclopédie* andIts Legacy, the Montpellier Encyclopedists, and the Royal Society of Sciences
- The emergence of the branches of knowledge in the era of d’Alembert and the *Encyclopédie*: philosophy, art, chemistry, botany, music, mechanics, and astronomy (as illustrated in the conference papers).
Photo credits: University of Montpellier / SCDI Montpellier – Photography Department