| Title: | Preliminary Discourse |
| Original Title: | Discours Préliminaire |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 1 (1751), p. i-xlv |
| Author: | Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert (biography) |
| Translator: | Richard N. Schwab; Walter E. Rex |
| Original Version (ARTFL): | Link |
| Source: | Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Preliminary Discourse to the Encyclopedia of Diderot, trans. Richard N. Schwab with the collaboration of Walter E. Rex (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995), 3-140. Used with permission. |
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| Citation (MLA): | d'Alembert, Jean-Baptiste le Rond. "Preliminary Discourse." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Richard N. Schwab and Walter E. Rex. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2009. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0001.083>. Trans. of "Discours Préliminaire," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 1. Paris, 1751. |
| Citation (Chicago): | d'Alembert, Jean-Baptiste le Rond. "Preliminary Discourse." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Richard N. Schwab and Walter E. Rex. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0001.083 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Discours Préliminaire," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 1:i-xlv (Paris, 1751). |
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Section
[Part I]
[Part II]
[Part III]
Note to the Note on the Translation
Notes to Part I
Notes to Part II
Notes to Part III
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