Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d’Alembert, The Figurative System of Human Knowledge, 1751-72
‘Sometimes known as the tree of Diderot and d’Alembert, the system was a tree developed to represent the structure of knowledge itself, produced for the Encyclopédie by Jean le Rond d’Alembert and Denis Diderot. The tree was a taxonomy of human knowledge, inspired by Francis Bacon’s The Advancement of Learning. The three main branches of knowledge in the tree are: “Memory”/History, “Reason”/Philosophy, and “Imagination”/Poetry.’
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