Encyclopedia of Yverdon
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The Encyclopedia, the Dictionary of Universal Human Knowledge, or Encyclopédie ou dictionnaire universel raisonné des connaissances humaines, was an Encyclopedia compiled by Fortunato Bartolomeo de Félice, 2nd Count di Panzutti, published between 1770 and 1780 in Yverdon. Increasingly anti-religious, in comparison to that of Diderot and d'Alembert on which it was based, this difference earned him the alternative title Protestant Encyclopedia, and ensured a strong distinction in Northern Europe.
Principal contributors
Fortunato de Félice, was a scholar of Italian origin. In 1759, he settled in Yverdon-sur-les-Bains, Switzerland, and created a network of over thirty collaborator; fifteen Swiss, twelve French, three Germans, an Italian, and an Irishman, most of whom have been identified below:
- Jean-Henri Andrié: contributed more than 4,200 articles on Geography
- fr:Charles-Louis-François Andry
- Elie Bertrand
- it:Carlo Barletti
- Louis de Bons
- Jean-Henri-Nicolas Bouillet
- Nicolas-Maximilien Bourgeois
- fr:Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt
- fr:Alexandre César Chavannes
- Jacques-Antoine-Henri Deleuze: contributed 1,030 articles on botany and natural history
- fr:Johann Heinrich Samuel Formey
- Fortunato Bartolomeo de Félice, 2nd Count di Panzutti
- Henri-Sébastien Dupuy de Bordes
- Leonhard Euler
- Johann Euler
- André Ferry
- Hieronymus David Gaubius
- fr:Mathieu-Bernard Goudin
- Gottlieb Emanuel von Haller
- Albrecht von Haller
- Samuel-Rodolphe Jeanneret
- Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande
- Lecuyer
- fr:Paul-Gabriel Le Preux
- Joseph Lieutaud
- Antoine Louis
- Archibald Maclaine
- Pierre-Joseph Macquer
- Gabriel Mingard
- David Perrelet
- Antoine Portal
- Johann Rudolf Sinner
- Jacob Reinhold Spielmann
- Johann Christoph Erich von Springer
- Vincent-Bernard de Tscharner
- fr:Paul-Joseph Vallet
- Pierre-Jacques Willermoz
The Encyclopedia in figures
- Published 1770 and 1780
- 58 volumes in-quarto
- 42 volumes
- 6 supplements
- 10 volumes for 1200 boards
- 37,378 pages
- about 75,000 items
- Circulation: between 2,500 and 3,000 copies.
Bibliography
- Site de l'édition moderne sur cd-rom
- Inventaire de l'encyclopédie.
- Donato, Clorinda et Doig, Kathleen, Notices sur les auteurs des quarante-huit volumes de "Discours" de l'Encyclopédie d'Yverdon, Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie, 1991, n° 11, p. 133-141.
- Jean-Daniel Candaux, Alain Cernuschi et al., L'encyclopédie d'Yverdon et sa résonance européenne : contextes, contenus, continuités, Genève, Slatkine, 2005
- Léonard Burnand, Alain Cernuschi, Circulation de matériaux entre l'Encyclopédie d'Yverdon et quelques dictionnaires spécialisés. In : Dix-huitième siècle, 2006, n° 38 (ISBN 978-2-70715010-3), p. 253 à 267. [1]