Romance Language Resource page - This page provides a varied collection of links to other French, Italian, and Spanish sites, specially designed for language teachers and students. And then something happened. The conception that d'Alembert and Diderot had developed in their preliminary pieces, the conception of a work that would embrace and organize the sum of human knowledge, simply surpassed the technological capabilities of the eighteenth century. Occasional readers have been limited to perusal of a small number of famous articles or to haphazard jumping from article to article, with no guarantee of finding the information most pertinent to the question at hand. He foresaw gradual revisions that would lead to perfection of the organizational scheme.
Computer technology offers an ideal solution.
References to other articles, references to plates, connections between plates and plate legends, study of all the articles by one contributor, consultation of all the articles pertaining to one subject-these procedures will all be facilitated in the computerized environment. The pilot project will incorporate plate images as well as images of the original text pages and will develop search structures to follow the systems of cross-references and categories of knowledge. These possibilities will not, perhaps, bring to the work the coherence of which Diderot dreamed, but they will give researchers a new means of embracing its complexities. The French have been talking about love for centuries. Of course, by any measure love, like many things, is hard to define.