Encyclopédie
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The Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers (French: "Encyclopedia, or a Systematic Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts and Crafts") was a French general encyclopedia of the sciences and arts. It was edited by the Enlightenment philosopher Denis Diderot and for that reason was also known as Encyclopédie Diderot.[1]
During the French Revolution, the Parisian Assassin Arno Dorian was tasked with recovering the book's section about secret societies to see if it would expose the Assassins' existence.[2]
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Although the 2014 video game Assassin's Creed: Unity depicts the adjacent image of arrayed pages as being from the Encyclopédie, none of the illustrations originate from the stated source text. The top left page features the Assassin insignia, something created by Ubisoft solely for the Assassin's Creed series. The bottom left page has a wheellock firing mechanism diagram from the encyclopedia entry "Radschloß" in the Meyers Konversations-Lexikon (4th ed.), modified to have the hammer incorrectly cropped and moved atop the frizzen and flash pan.[3]
The top middle page has a fraktur of the Massachusetts-born Nathaniel Bangs' family record[4] that he filed as part of his joint veteran's pension and United States Military Lands grant application for his service in the American Revolutionary War.[5] The bottom middle page has a lithographic plate[6] of Anne Bonny that was verso page 220[7] in Robert Hennebo's 1725 translation[8] of Captain Charles Johnson's 1724 book A General History of the Pyrates into Dutch for the Netherlands. The sources for the rightmost pages' images are currently unknown.
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Encyclopédie on Wikipedia
- ↑ Assassin's Creed: Unity – Encyclopédie Diderot
- ↑ Meyer, Hermann Julius, ed. (1889). "Radschloß". [Wheellock]. Meyers Konversations-Lexikon. Eine Encyklopädie des allgemeinen Wissens. [Meyers' Conversational Dictionary: An Encyclopedia of General Knowledge] (in German). 4th ed. Vol. 13. Leipzig: Bibliographisches Institut. p. 545. Retrieved on 16 November 2025.
- ↑ Jacobson, Rhonda (1 October 2012). Nathaniel Bangs (1760 - 1827). WikiTree. Archived from the original on 22 November 2023. Retrieved on 17 November 2025.
- ↑ United States Department of War (c. 1810). Illustrated Family Record (Fraktur) Found in Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land-Warrant Application File W14231 for Nathaniel Bangs, Massachusetts. National Archives and Records Administration. Retrieved on 16 November 2025.
- ↑ John Carter Brown Library (c. 1870). Anne Bonny op Jamaica Gevangen [Anne Bonny imprisoned on Jamaica] (in Dutch). Brown University. Retrieved on 16 November 2025.
- ↑ Look and Learn (2005). Anne Bonny op Jamaica Gevangen [Anne Bonny imprisoned on Jamaica] (in Dutch). Look and Learn. Retrieved on 17 November 2025.
- ↑ Johnson, Charles. Historie der Zee-Roovers. [History of the Sea-Robbers] (in Dutch). Vol. 1. Translated by Robert Hennebo. Amsterdam: Hermanus Uytwerf, 1725. Retrieved on 16 November 2025.