What were Jean la Rond d’Alembert’s three Trees of Knowledge that provided the conceptual framework for the Encyclopédie?

a) Memory, Reason, and Imagination
b) Logic, Mathematics, and Astronomy
Consider This: Published in d’Alembert’s Discours préliminaire, the trees demonstrated the interrelationship of human knowledge. See 5.7: Narrative: Dining with the Encyclopedia.
c) History, Biography, and Biology
Consider This: Published in d’Alembert’s Discours préliminaire, the trees demonstrated the interrelationship of human knowledge. See 5.7: Narrative: Dining with the Encyclopedia.
d) Geology, Astronomy, and Humanity
Consider This: Published in d’Alembert’s Discours préliminaire, the trees demonstrated the interrelationship of human knowledge. See 5.7: Narrative: Dining with the Encyclopedia.


a) Memory, Reason, and Imagination

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