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Double 1785 Plate 16 from Diderot's ENCYCLOPEDIA, "ALPHABETS
DES ANCIENS PERSANS" [Larger]. An educational plate to educate
Europe on the OLD PERSIAN LANGUAGE. Denis
Diderot (1713-1784) set to create an encyclopedia of crafts in
the 18th century. The entire encyclopedia was published between
1751 and 1772, and comprised 17 volumes of text and 11 volumes
of plates. The marvelous detailed plates show how everything
in the period was made. It had a huge impact on its own time.
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