Pierre Mouchon
Pierre Mouchon | |
|---|---|
| Born | 30 July 1733 Geneva |
| Died | 20 August 1797(aged 64) Geneva |
| Occupation | Pastor |
Pierre Mouchon(30 July 1733 – 20 August 1797) was an 18th-centuryGenevanpastor, best remembered for being the author of theTable analytique et raisonnée...(index) of theEncyclopédiebyDiderotandD'Alembert.
Biography
[edit]The son of a watchmaker, Minister of the French cult in Basel (1766) and Geneva (1788), keen on mathematics and astronomy, known toJean-Jacques Rousseau,Pierre Mouchon undertook from 1774 to 1775, the development of what would become theTable analytique et raisonnée des matières contenues dans les XXXIII volumes in-folio du Dictionnaire des sciences, des arts et des métiers[1]published in two volumes in 1780, in Paris byCharles-Joseph Panckouckeand in Amsterdam, byMarc-Michel Rey,the two co publishers of theSupplément à l'Encyclopédie.
Nicknamed "Mouchon table", it consists of an analytical and summary index of the entire corpus of theEncyclopédie,supplements included, and contains thematic knowledge tree views. The warning also points outl'on peut regarder cette Table comme un Abrégé du fameux Dictionnaire [et] peut même le remplacer en bien des occasions( "this Table may be looked at as an Abstract of the famous Dictionary [and] may even replace it on many occasions".[2] What this warning fails to say is that Mouchon did ignore the anti-Christian passages (related tomaterialism) that dot here and there the Dictionary...
According toJean Senebier,[3]Mouchon received for this work, which probably required him paring all 33 volumes, the lump sum of 4,800livres;the manuscript was then typeset in particular by the famousDe Tournes family.
Eugénie Niboyet(1796–1883), a French author, journalist and early feminist, was a granddaughter of Pierre Mouchon.
See also
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[edit]- ^Read online
- ^Avertissement,Read online,vol. 1
- ^J. Senebier,Histoire littéraire de Genève,1788, vol. 3
External links
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This article incorporatespublic domain materialfrom websites or documents of theUnited States Department of Homeland Security.- Notice sur Pierre Mouchonpar Jean Vaucher, DIRO/Université de Montréal
