Practice question · Estimate
The Encyclopédie began publication in 1751 and was completed with its final volumes of plates in 1772. Estimate how many years the project ran.
Estimate on a scale from 5 years (5) to 40 years (40).
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- Subtract the first year of publication from the last.
- 1772 minus 1751.
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21 (answers within ±2 count)
Why
21 years: a working lifetime for the editors, sustained across two suppressions, the withdrawal of the royal privilege in 1759, and d’Alembert’s resignation. That the project was finished at all is a fact about the subscription market as much as about the editors’ persistence.
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