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Louis de Jaucourt
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ChevalierLouis de Jaucourt (Paris, September 16, – February 3, , Compiègne) was a French scholar and the most prolific contributor to the Encyclopédie. He wrote about 18, articles on subjects including physiology, chemistry, botany, pathology, and political history, or about 25% of the entire encyclopedia, all done voluntarily.
Free biography graphic organizers There was gathered together in this work a vast sum of knowledge which enabled much progress to be made at a later date in scientific and technical realms. It is in his works on history and society that his political and philosophical views become clearly evident. The Chevalier de Jaucourt , as his title shows, was the younger son of a noble house. Read Edit View history.In the generations after the Encyclopédie's, mainly due to his aristocratic background, his legacy was largely overshadowed by the more bohemian Denis Diderot, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and others, but by the midth century more scholarly attention was being paid to him.
Biography
Jaucourt studied theology in Geneva, natural sciences at the University of Cambridge, and medicine in Leiden.
Upon returning to France, he spent the next 20 years writing the Lexicon medicum universalis, a six-volume work on anatomy. He sent it to be published in Amsterdam to avoid French censorship but the ship carrying the sole manuscript sank, and 20 years of labor was lost. He also wrote a biography of Leibniz in
He volunteered to work on the Encyclopédie, recruited by publisher Michel-Antoine David starting with the second volume of the work.
Louis de jaucourt biography graphic organizers Jaucourt was born in Paris, the youngest son of an aristocratic family. He wrote mainly on the sciences, especially medicine and biology. ISBN Modern Language Notes.He began modestly, with only a few articles in each of the next several volumes, but gradually became more and more involved. Between and he wrote on average 8 encyclopedia articles per day, for a total of 17, out of 71, articles (or about 25%), making him by far the single most prolific contributor to Encyclopédie. His contributions come to some 4,, words.
He was especially active in the later volumes, writing between 30% and 45% of the articles in volumes 10 to This earned him the nickname l'esclave de l’Encyclopédie (the slave of the Encyclopedia).
Unlike other editors, Jaucourt was independently wealthy and asked for no payment for his full-time labors. Most of his works consisted of summarizing full books and other longer works into encyclopedia articles, with much content copied verbatim from existing sources.
Louis de jaucourt biography graphic organizers for middle school pdf Wikimedia Commons Wikidata item. Email Address. David Auerbach About the author Send me an E-mail. Tools Tools.He employed a group of secretaries, out of his own pocket, to help with the effort. He wrote mainly on the sciences, especially medicine and biology. He took a firmly mechanist approach to the subject. This is in sharp contrast to the other major contributor in this area, Ménuret de Chambaud, who had a firmly vitalist view.
Louis de jaucourt biography graphic organizers for kids He also wrote a biography of Leibniz. Article Talk. Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "Louis de Jaucourt" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License ; or on research by Jahsonic. Often to avoid censure, the writer would misattribute quotations, such as when he borrowed a fellow philosophe's quote decrying tyranny and attributed it to Tacitus.While his main focus was on science and biology, he also covered a wide array of other subjects. It is in his works on history and society that his political and philosophical views become clearly evident. He wrote articles of central importance on war, monarchy, people, and Muhammad. His writing is never as openly political as other contributors such as Diderot and Voltaire, but it is clear that he possessed deeply held views.
Some of his works, such as those on historical subjects clearly contain radical and anti-clerical messages through implied comparisons between the ancient past and modern France. He also did important works on slavery, the slave trade, and Black people, all strongly condemning slavery as counter to both natural rights and liberties.
Jaucourt practiced medicine and was a member of the Royal Society in London and the academies of Berlin, Stockholm (elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in ), and Bordeaux.
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