Reddit reviews A Diderot Pictorial Encyclopedia of Trades and Industry: Manufacturing and the Technical Arts in Plates Selected from "L'Encyclopedie, Ou Dictionnai: 002 (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)
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Diderot's encyclopedic drawings are amazing - picked up a used diderot hardcover yesterday and have really been enjoying it. Something like this
He very accurately and beautifully details a wide range of enlightenment technologies and processes from the mold-making and casting of artillery cannons to fishing fleet formations to farm rotations, etc. It's like an operating manual for modern society.