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Title: Air
Original Title: Air
Volume and Page: Vol. 1 (1751), p. 237
Author: Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville (biography)
Translator: Ann-Marie Thornton [Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey]
Subject terms:
Gardening
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Source: Russell, Terence M. and Anne Marie Thornton. Gardens and landscapes in the Encyclopédie of Diderot and D'Alembert : the letterpress articles and selected engravings. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999. Used with permission.
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Citation (MLA): Dezallier d'Argenville, Antoine-Joseph. "Air." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Ann-Marie Thornton. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2013. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0001.729>. Trans. of "Air," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 1. Paris, 1751.
Citation (Chicago): Dezallier d'Argenville, Antoine-Joseph. "Air." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Ann-Marie Thornton. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0001.729 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Air," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 1:237 (Paris, 1751).

Air. One says that a tree is planted so that it is exposed to the wind or in the open air, which means the same thing. See Air.