The tree of knowledge: d'Alembert and the Encyclopédie
Exhibition organized by the Bibliothèque InterUniversitaire de Montpellier, the Université de Montpellier and the Académie des Sciences et Lettres de Montpellier
Date: November 17-December 22, 2017 (general public) and January 9-February 3, 2018
Opening hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 1pm to 5:30pm
Venue: Tékné Makré exhibition rooms, ground floor of the Faculty of Medicine
Contact:biu-patrimoine-bumedecine@umontpellier.fr
Tel :04 34 43 35 80
Group visits on 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 Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de Montpellier (Service du patrimoine écrit et graphique), the Université de Montpellier and theAcadémie des Sciences et Lettres de Montpellierproposean exhibition as an extension and complement to the colloquium "Sciences, Lumières et humanisme de d'Alembert à aujourd'hui" organized by the Académie on November 16 and 17, 2017.
Through the figure of d'Alembert, whose tercentenary will be celebrated in November 2017, the exhibition will evoke encyclopedism, the sciences and the arts, and will include a rich selection of old documents, scientific objects from the 18thto21stcenturies, art drawings, etc. from the collections of Montpellier's universities, which have a particularly rich heritage in this field.
It is divided into two parts:
- D'Alembert, theEncyclopédieandits posterity, the Montpellier encyclopedists and the Société royale des sciences
- The birth of branches of knowledge in the age of d'Alembert and the Encyclopédie: philosophy, art, chemistry, botany, music, mechanics and astronomy (to illustrate the symposium papers).
