Practice question · Numerical answer
The Encyclopédie appeared in volumes of text and volumes of engraved plates. How many volumes of TEXT did it contain?
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- There were 11 volumes of plates.
- Seventeen volumes of text, published between 1751 and 1765.
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17
Why
17 volumes of text, plus 11 of plates completed by 1772. The plates matter more than the ratio suggests: engraved depictions of workshops, tools and processes made the crafts legible to readers who would never enter them, which was itself a claim about what deserved to be recorded.
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