| Title: | Academy of Architecture |
| Original Title: | Académie d'Architecture |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 1 (1751), p. 57 |
| Author: | Denis Diderot (biography) |
| Translator: | Reed Benhamou [Indiana University] |
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| Citation (MLA): | Diderot, Denis. "Academy of Architecture." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Reed Benhamou. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2003. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0000.204>. Trans. of "Académie d'Architecture," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 1. Paris, 1751. |
| Citation (Chicago): | Diderot, Denis. "Academy of Architecture." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Reed Benhamou. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0000.204 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Académie d'Architecture," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 1:57 (Paris, 1751). |
Academy of Architecture, is a company of scholarly architects, established in Paris by M. Colbert, Minister of State, in 1671, under the direction of the Superintendent of Bâtiments.
Paracelsus used to say that he had studied neither in Paris, nor in Rome, nor in Toulouse, nor in any Academy: that he had no University but Nature, through which God manifested his wisdom, his power, and his glory so that it could be perceived by those who studied it. It is to Nature, he added, that I owe what I am, and what there is of truth in my writings.