e, ou Dictionnaire raisonne des sciences,
des arts et des metiers, including all 17 volumes of text and 11 volumes of
plates from the first edition, that is to say about 18,000 pages of text and
exactly 20,736,912 words.

Published under the direction of Diderot between 1751 and 1772, the Encyclopedie
counted as contributors the most prominent philosophers of the time: Voltaire,
Rousseau, d'Alembert, Marmontel, d'Holbach, Turgot, etc.

"These great minds (and some lesser ones) collaborated in the goal of assembling
and disseminating in clear, accessible prose the fruits of accumulated knowledge
and learning. Containing 72,000 articles written by more than 140 contributors,
the Encyclopedie was a massive reference work for the arts and sciences, as well
as a machine de guerre which served to propagate Enlightened ideas [...] The
impact of the Encyclopedie was enormous, not only in its original edition, but
also in multiple reprintings in smaller formats and in later adaptations. It was
hailed, and also persecuted, as the sum of modern knowledge, as the monument to
the progress of reason in the eighteenth century. Through its attempt to
classify learning and to open all domains of human activity to its readers, the
Encyclopedie gave expression to many of the most important intellectual and
social developments of its time."

At present, while work continues on the fully navigational, full-text version,
ARTFL is providing public access on its website to the Prototype Demonstration
of Volume One. From Autumn 1998 a preliminary version is released for
consultation by all ARTFL subscribers.

Mentioned on the ARTFL home page in the Reference Collection, other ARTFL
projects are: the 1st (1694) and 5th (1798) editions of the Dictionnaire de
L'Academie francaise; Jean Nicot's Tresor de la langue francaise (1606)
Dictionary; Pierre Bayle's Dictionnaire historique et critique (1740 edition)
(text of an image-only version); The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus;
Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition; Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary; the
French Bible by Louis Segond and parallel Bibles in German, Latin, and English,
etc.

Created by Michael S. Hart in 1971, the Project Gutenberg was the first
information provider on the Internet. It is now the oldest digital library on
the Web, and the biggest considering the number of works (1,500) which has been
digitalized for it, with 45 new titles per month. Michael Hart's purpose is to