The Encyclopedia of Yverdon () is an encyclopedia compiled by Fortunato Bartolomeo de Félice and published in 58 volumes from 1770 through 1780 in Yverdon, Switzerland. The Encyclopedia of Yverdon is not as culturally French nor as philosophically skeptical of religion as the work it is based upon, the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert. Due to these differences, the Encyclopedia of Yverdon was known as the "Protestant encyclopedia" and was widely distributed across Northern Europe.
Principal contributors The Italian scholar Fortunato de Félice emigrated to Bern, Switzerland, in 1757 and finally resettled in Yverdon, Switzerland, in 1762. To advance his encyclopedia, Félice brought together more than thirty international collaborators. Fifteen of his contributors were Swiss, twelve French, three German, one Italian, and one Irish. They include:
Jean-Henri Andrié: contributed more than 4,200 articles on Geography. Charles-Louis-François Andry Elie Bertrand Carlo Barletti Louis de Bons Jean-Henri-Nicolas Bouillet Nicolas-Maximilien Bourgeois Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt Alexandre César Chavannes Jacques-Antoine-Henri Deleuze: contributed 1,030 articles on botany and natural history. Johann Heinrich Samuel Formey Henri-Sébastien Dupuy de Bordes Leonhard Euler Johann Euler André Ferry Hieronymus David Gaubius Mathieu-Bernard Goudin Gottlieb Emanuel von Haller Albrecht von Haller Samuel-Rodolphe Jeanneret Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande Lecuyer Paul-Gabriel Le Preux Joseph Lieutaud Antoine Louis Archibald Maclaine Pierre-Joseph Macquer Gabriel Mingard David Perrelet Antoine Portal Johann Rudolf Sinner Jacob Reinhold Spielmann Johann Christoph Erich von Springer Vincent-Bernard de Tscharner Paul-Joseph Vallet Pierre-Jacques Willermoz
The Encyclopedia of Yverdon by the numbers published from 1770 through 1780 58 quarto volumes 42 volumes of articles 6 volumes of supplemental articles 10 volumes of plates, with 1200 figures about 37,378 pages about 75,000 articles sales: between 2,500 and 3,000 copies
Bibliography
Donato, Clorinda et Doig, Kathleen, Notices sur les auteurs des quarante-huit volumes de "Discours" de l'Encyclopédie d'Yverdon, Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie, 1991, n° 11, p. 133-141. Jean-Daniel Candaux, Alain Cernuschi et al., L'encyclopédie d'Yverdon et sa résonance européenne : contextes, contenus, continuités, Genève, Slatkine, 2005 Léonard Burnand, Alain Cernuschi, Circulation de matériaux entre l'Encyclopédie d'Yverdon et quelques dictionnaires spécialisés. In : Dix-huitième siècle, 2006, n° 38 (), p. 253 à 267.
References
External links Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire universel raisonné des connoissances humaines, Volume 18 sur Google Books L'Encyclopédie d'Yverdon : une entreprise internationale