Exhibition: “The Tree of Knowledge: Encyclopedias, the Enlightenment, D’Alembert, and the Evolution of Science”

From November 17, 2017, to January 31, 2018 (For groups only in January, by appointment)
Tuesday through Saturday from 1:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Sunday, November 19, from 1:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Exhibition halls on the ground floor of the Faculty of Medicine

The Montpellier Interuniversity Library (Department of Written and Graphic Heritage), the University of Montpellier, and the Montpellier Academy of Sciences and Letters are presenting an exhibition that builds upon and complements the symposium “Science, the Enlightenment, and Humanism: From d’Alembert to the Present,” organized by the Academy on November 16 and 17, 2017.
Seeking to highlight—through the figure of d’Alembert, whose 300th anniversary will be marked in November 2017—encyclopedic scholarship, the sciences, and the arts, the exhibition will feature a rich selection of historical documents, scientific artifacts from the 18th to the 21st century, artistic drawings, and more. from the collections of the universities of Montpellier, whose heritage is particularly rich in this field.
It will be divided into two parts:

1. D’Alembert, the *Encyclopédie* and its legacy, the Montpellier encyclopedists and the Royal Society of Sciences, the great philosophers;
2. The emergence of the various fields of knowledge during the time of d’Alembert and the *Encyclopédie*: philosophy, art, botany, music, mechanics, and astronomy.

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