“The Tree of Knowledge,” the exhibition on d’Alembert and the scholars of the Enlightenment, has been extended

The exhibition, which opened on November 17, has been extended and will be open to the public from January 9 to February 3, Tuesday through Saturday, from 1:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Group tours available upon request through February 16, 2018
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 as a follow-up to and complement of 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in November 2017—encyclopedic scholarship, the sciences, and the arts, the exhibition will feature a rich selection of historical documents, scientific artifacts from the 18th to the 21st century, artistic drawings, and more.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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