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Introduction

At the Origins of the Encyclopedic Dream

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

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Copyright © 1997 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

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1. These texts were presented and discussed at a one day conference of the research network "Les Mondes lettrés" (Centre Louis-Gernet, CNRS) on "Les Formes de totalisation du savoir dans l'Antiquité," on 14 January 1997, in the context of the series of meetings on Encyclopedism organized by the Biblio thèque nationale de France. We greatly thank Roland Schaer and Thierry Gril let (Direction du Développement culturel de la Bibliothèque nationale de France) who made it possible for us to organize this seminar.