Vocabulaire Universel, the key and index to the entire work, was not published, it was difficult to carry out any research or to find all the articles on any particular subject. The original parts had often been subdivided, and had been so added onto by other dictionaries, supplements, and appendices that an exact account could not be given of the work, which contained 88 alphabets, 83 indexes, 166 introductions, discourses, prefaces, etc. Overall, probably no more an unmanageable body of dictionaries has ever been published, except Jacques Paul Migne's Encyclopédie théologique, Paris, 1844–1875, with 168 volumes, 101 dictionaries, and 119,059 pages. The Encyclopédie méthodique par ordre des matières occupied a thousand workers in production, and 2,250 contributors. Translations Ten volumes of a Spanish translation with a volume of plates were published at Madrid in 1806: Historia natural, Vol. 1-2 Grammatica, Vol. 1 Arte militar, Vol. 1-2 Geografia, Vol. 1-3 Fabricas, Vol. 1-2 Plates, Vol. 1 A French edition was printed at Padua, with the plates, very carefully engraved. Details of encyclopedia format The division adopted was: The largest dictionaries were: Zoology: 13,645 pages, 1206 plates (7 vols.); Botany: 12,002 pages, 1,000 plates (34 only of cryptogamic plants); Medicine: 10,330 pages (13 vols.); Geography: 9,090 pages, 193 maps and plates (3 vols. and 2 atlases); Jurisprudence (with police and municipalities): 7,607 pages (10 vols.); and Anatomy (not a dictionary but a series of systematic treatises): 2,866 pages (4 vols.). Partial list of contributors Jean Guillaume Audinet-Serville (insects) Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre (cetaceans, mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and insects) Jean-Nicolas Démeunier (U.S.A) Antoine-François Fourcroy (insects) Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville (insects) Jean Baptiste Godart (insects) Christian Hee Hwass (molluscs) Thomas Jefferson (U.S.A) Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (botany) Philippe Petit-Radel (surgery) Philippe-Isidore Picot de Lapeyrouse (birds) Guillaume-Antoine Olivier (insects) Pierre André Latreille (invertebrates, insects) Amédée Louis Michel le Peletier, comte de Saint-Fargeau (insects) Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau (chemistry) Antoine Chrysostome Quatremère de Quincy (architecture) Jean-Marie Roland, vicomte de la Platière (commerce) Jacques de Sève artwork Jacques-André Naigeon References External links Cambridge University Library's Featured Book page Encyclopédie méthodique: botanique /Par m. le chevalier de Lamarck. At: Biodiversity Heritage Library Encyclopédie méthodique at Wikisource(french) French encyclopedias 1782 non-fiction books 18th-century encyclopedias 19th-century encyclopedias