Rare engraving on surgical science dating from 1779. Planche XXII: lithotome, bandage for aneurysm, eye operation ... This exceptional engraving of medicine is taken from the famous encyclopedic work of Diderot and Alembert: reasoned dictionary of sciences, arts and trades, with their explanation published in Geneva, pellet in 1779. The encyclopedia is a major work of the 18th century and the first French encyclopedia. By the synthesis of knowledge of the time it contains, it represents a considerable editorial and editorial work for this time and was carried out by encyclopedists constituted in "society of people of letters". Finally, beyond the knowledge it compiles, the work it represents and the purposes it targets, make it a symbol of the work of the Enlightenment, a political weapon.
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