| Title: | Boesjes |
| Original Title: | Boesjes |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 2 (1752), p. 291 |
| Author: | Denis Diderot (biography) |
| Translator: | Kathryn Heintzman [Harvard University] |
| Subject terms: |
Commerce
Modern history
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| Citation (MLA): | Diderot, Denis. "Boesjes." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Kathryn Heintzman. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2020. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0003.957>. Trans. of "Boesjes," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 2. Paris, 1752. |
| Citation (Chicago): | Diderot, Denis. "Boesjes." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Kathryn Heintzman. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0003.957 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Boesjes," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 2:291 (Paris, 1752). |
Boesjes, seashells that serve as coins among the inhabitants of Lower Ethiopia. [1]
1. These are sometimes also rendered as bousies and boejies in English, though eighteenth-century European sources had varying opinions on where these currencies were used.