The “figurative system of human knowledge“, sometimes known as the tree of Diderot and d’Alembert, was a tree developed to represent the structure of knowledge itself, produced for the Encyclopédie by Jean le Rond d’Alembert and Denis Diderot
Système Figuré des Connaissances Humaines (circa 1783)
[…] and mapping how the different knowledge branches or academic disciplines are related is an old ambition. One recurrent theme is the collaboration network among researchers, publications and knowledge […]
[…] hope it will remain as the lighthouse which guides us back on the road Diderot and D’Alambert saw toward the Web We […]