Diderot, the Mechanical Arts, and the Encyclopedie: In Search of the Heritage of Technology Education

Abstract

In a recent symposium on critical issues in technology education, Walter Waetjen (1992) regretted the lack of a history of technology education (pp. 25; 28). This paper contributes to a history of technology education by focusing on one of the most ambitious attempts in early modern history to describe technological knowledge — Diderot's Encyclopedie (Diderot & d'Alembert, 17511772).1 In Diderot's time, the idea of representing technological topics was not new, but Diderot's Encyclopedie was distinctive in several ways.2 It was written and illustrated profusely by many contributors, numbering well over one hun-

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