Author: Diderot, Denis
Title: L'Encyclopedie; Recueil de Planches sur les Sciences. Les Arts Liberaux at les Arts Mechaniques, avec leur explication.Paris , 1762
Call #: AE25 . E53
Illustration: Silkworms and domestic harvesting of silk
Pedagogical Uses/Notes:
- 18th-century visual culture
- The pedagogical uses of illustration (especially here, given the volume of plates is to complement the main text) - to teach garden design, silk and honey production
- Illustration and aesthetics
- Illustration of the process of commodity production (note modes, how temporal sequence is shown
