Research into the sources of the geographical articles of the "Encyclopedie": focused on dictionaries

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24520083
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: History of thought
• Research Institution: Hitotsubashi University
• Principal Investigator: KOSEKI Takeshi 一橋大学, 大学院法学研究科, 教授 (70313450)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 『百科全書』 / 地理 / 典拠 / 事典 / ディドロ / ジョクール / ヴォジヤン / ブリュザン・ド・ラ・マルティニエール

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Authors on the articles of the Encyclopedie concerning geography varies from volume to volume. We recognize three groups: Diderot's articles, those of anonymous author and of Jaucourt. To compose his articles, Diderot uses freely five dictionaries, that is to say, Vosgien's "Dictionnaire geographique portatif", Bruzen's "Grand Dictionnaire geographique", "Dictionnaire de Trevoux", Moreri's "Grand Dictionnaire historique" and Savary's "Dictionnaire de commerce". We find same tendency in the unsigned articles as for sources, so that these articles of second group can be regarded as written by Diderot. However, Jaucourt's sources remain obscure. Only Bruzen's Dictionary could be consulted by this contributor.

Free Research Field

18世紀フランス思想史