Pl. 4 Antique Print of the Manufacturing of Weapons by Diderot (1751)

Description: Antique print titled ‘Fourbisseur, Machina a Fourbir et Developpemens’. This print depicts the manufacturing of weapons/swords. This print originates from ‘The Encyclopeie ou Dictionnaire raisonne des sciences, des arts et des metiers, par une Societe de Gens de lettres’.

Artists and Engravers: Denis Diderot (1713-1784) was a French philosopher, art critic and writer. Jean le Rond d'Alembert (1717-1783) was a French mathematician, mechanician, physicist and philosopher. These plates are engraved by J.A.Defehrt and Bonaventure/Benoit-Louis Prevost after J.R Lucotte or Goussier.