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- Publiée entre 1787 et 1830
(série médecine : 1787-1830 -
série chirurgie : 1790-1798)
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- L'Encyclopédie
méthodique
est une entreprise de longue durée,
demi-séculaire, puisqu'elle
s'étend de 1782 à 1832, pour
aboutir à un monument de 210 volumes
in-4°, 157 de texte sur deux colonnes et 53
de planches.
- A l'intérieur de cet ensemble
monumental se trouvent 13 volumes
consacrés à la médecine,
contenant :
- • l'hygiène
- • la pathologie
- • la séméiotique et la
nosologie
- • la thérapeutique ou
matière médicale
- • la médecine militaire
- • la médecine
vétérinaire
- • la médecine légale
- • la jurisprudence de la
médecine et de la pharmacie
- • la biographie médicale,
c'est-à-dire des vies de médecins
célèbres avec les notices de leurs
ouvrages
- et 3 volumes (dont un de planches) pour la
chirurgie, par une société de
médecins, dont la parution
s'échelonne entre 1787, Vicq d'Azyr
étant directeur, et 1830, Auguste
Thillaye, lui ayant succèdé
après Petit-Radel et Moreau de la
Sarthe.
- L'intérêt de ce ouvrage vient
justement de la longue durée de
l'entreprise s'étalant sur des
décennies riches en mutations profondes
aussi bien en histoire tout court qu'en histoire
de la médecine avec le triomphe de
l'anatomo-clinique.
- Articles
signés.
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- This is the Ultimate Encyclopedia and the
largest of all great Encyclopedias and the most
important work published during the French
Enlightement. It includes 43 different
dictionaries, all from A to Z and contributors
are all the great French scientists and
especially Naturalists from that time, being:
Latreille, Olivier, Desmarest, Lamarck, Bory St.
Vincent, Bonnaterre, Alembert, Brugière,
Le Noir, Monge, Cassini, Roland de la
Platière, Abbé Tessier, Thouin,
Mongez etc.
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- It is especially important for its Natural
History, Medecine and Arts and Crafts and
includes all its very beautiful and detailed
engravings. It contains about 120.000 pages of
which the Zoology only over 13.000 with 1397
engravings, Botany by the famous Lamarck with
over 12.000p. and 1000 engravings including the
rare "illustrations de genre" and medical
scienes with over 10.000 pages. We have an exact
list of all the 43 sections!
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- Charles-Joseph Panckoucke
(1736-1798) was the uncrowned king of the
publishers during the Enlightment! He also
published the other Encyclopedia by Diderot et
d'Alembert, published "only" in 35 vols. with
"only" 2795 plates, but with almost the same
famous frontispiece in both works. Furthermore
the famous Description de l'Egypte, Mercure de
France, Journal historique et politique, etc.
After his death in 1798 his grandson Henri
Agasse continued and later his daughter
Antoinette Pauline Agasse-Panckoucke until 1832.
Engravers and artists are De Sève,
Redouté, Audebert a.o. In the
Géographie Physique two engraved maps are
handcoloured, these are mineralogical maps. It
is a fine complete set in nice, mostly
contemporary bindings and as such of the
greatest rarity.
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- The Encyclopédie méthodique
was a reworking of the famous
Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert,
but on a much larger scale, with important
additions by the best minds of the day. The
publisher Panckoucke
called the work "un superbe ouvrage et la vrai
Encyclopédie"; it was to be "a book that
would make Diderot's work pale into
insignificance, that would encompass all of
human knowledge", and that would make Panckoucke
a millionaire many times over, for he planned to
stake his fortune on it and to build it into the
biggest enterprise in the history of publishing.
In short, it was to be the ultimate in
Encyclopedism.The chief novelty of the
Méthodique was that the whole work was
divided according to subject matter into
twenty-six sub-encyclopedias, which thus form
independent works on particular subjects and
save laborious 'piece[ing] together
cross references and comb[ing] through
dozens of heavy tomes in order to get a coherent
view of a subject'
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- Dictionnaire
des sciences médicales 1812-1822
Charles-Louis-Fleury Panckoucke
- Dictionnaire
de médecine Béchet ed. Adelon
1821
- Dictionnaire
de médecine et de chirurgie pratiques
ou "Andral" 1829
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