The Encyclopedia, the Dictionary of Universal Human Knowledge, or 'Encyclopédie ou dictionnaire universel raisonné des connaissances humaines', was an Encyclopedia compiled by Fortunato Bartolomeo de Félice, 2nd Count di Panzutti, published between 1770 and 1780 in Yverdon. Increasingly anti-religious, in comparison to that of Diderot and d'Alembert on which it was based, this difference earned him the alternative title 'Protestant Encyclopedia', and ensured a strong distinction in Northern Europe.
Fortunato de Félice, was a scholar of Italian origin. In 1759, he settled in Yverdon-sur-les-Bains, Switzerland, and created a network of over thirty collaborator; fifteen Swiss, twelve French, three Germans, an Italian, and an Irishman, most of whom have been identified below:
Jean-Henri Andrié: contributed more than 4,200 articles on Geography
fr:Charles-Louis-François Andry
Elie Bertrand
it:Carlo Barletti
Louis de Bons
Jean-Henri-Nicolas Bouillet
Nicolas-Maximilien Bourgeois
fr:Louis Claude Cadet de Gassicourt
fr:Alexandre César Chavannes
Jacques-Antoine-Henri Deleuze: contributed 1,030 articles on botany and natural history
fr:Johann Heinrich Samuel Formey
Fortunato Bartolomeo de Félice, 2nd Count di Panzutti
Henri-Sébastien Dupuy de Bordes
Leonhard Euler
Johann Euler
André Ferry
Hieronymus David Gaubius
fr:Mathieu-Bernard Goudin
Gottlieb Emanuel von Haller
Albrecht von Haller
Samuel-Rodolphe Jeanneret
Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande
Lecuyer
fr:Paul-Gabriel Le Preux
Joseph Lieutaud
Antoine Louis
Archibald Maclaine
Pierre-Joseph Macquer
Gabriel Mingard
David Perrelet
Antoine Portal
Johann Rudolf Sinner
Jacob Reinhold Spielmann
Johann Christoph Erich von Springer
Vincent-Bernard de Tscharner
fr:Paul-Joseph Vallet
Pierre-Jacques Willermoz
Published 1770 and 1780
58 volumes in-quarto
42 volumes
6 supplements
10 volumes for 1200 boards
37,378 pages
about 75,000 items
Circulation: between 2,500 and 3,000 copies.
