| Title: | Syene |
| Original Title: | Zzuéné ou Zzeuene |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 17 (1765), pp. 750–751 |
| Author: | Louis, chevalier de Jaucourt (biography) |
| Translator: | Malcolm Eden [University of London] |
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Ancient geography
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| Citation (MLA): | Jaucourt, Louis, chevalier de. "Syene." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Malcolm Eden. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2007. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0000.763>. Trans. of "Zzuéné ou Zzeuene," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 17. Paris, 1765. |
| Citation (Chicago): | Jaucourt, Louis, chevalier de. "Syene." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Malcolm Eden. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0000.763 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Zzuéné ou Zzeuene," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 17:750–751 (Paris, 1765). |
Syene. Town situated in Upper Egypt on the eastern bank of the Nile, near Ethiopia. See Syéné.
This is the final geographic entry in this work, and probably too the article that will close the Encyclopedia .
To spread the empire of science and the arts, wrote Bacon, it would be worthwhile to create an association between talented people of all classes. Their union would cast a brilliant light on the scientific and artistic worlds. What a wonderful conspiracy! A time will come when philosophers inspired by this great project will dare to take flight. And then a nebulous swarm, peopled by the sophists and the jealous, will rise from the lower regions, powerless to follow or to stop the rapid flight of those eagles soaring high above, but vainly bleating out criticisms of their undertaking and triumph.