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DIDOT , the name of a See also:family of learned See also:French printers and publishers. See also:FRANcoIS DIDOT (1689-1757), founder of the family, was See also:born at See also:Paris. He began business as a bookseller and printer in 1713, and among his undertakings was a collection of the travels of his friend the See also:Abbe See also:Prevost, in twenty volumes (1747). It was remarkable for its typographical perfection, and was adorned with many engravings and maps. FRANCOIS AMBROISE DIDOT (173o-18o4), son of Francois, made important improvements in type-See also:founding, and was the first to See also:attempt See also:printing on vellum See also:paper. Among the See also:works which he published was the famous collection of French See also:classics prepared by See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order of See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XVI. for the See also:education of the Dauphin, and the See also:folio edition of L'See also:Art de verifier See also:les See also:dates. See also:PIERRE FRANcOIS DIDOT (1732-1795), his See also:brother, devoted much See also:attention to the art of type-founding and to paper-making. Among the works which issued from his See also:press was an edition in folio of the Imitatio Christi (1788). See also:HENRI DIDOT (1765-1852), son of Pierre Francois, is celebrated for his " microscopic " See also:editions of various See also:standard works, for which he engraved the type when nearly seventy years of See also:age. He was also the engraver of the See also:assignats issued by the Constituent and Legislative Assemblies and the See also:Convention. DIDOT See also:SAINT-LEGER, second son of Pierre Francois, was the inventor of the paper-making See also:machine kncwn in See also:England as the Didot machine. PIERRE DIDOT (176o-1853), eldest son of Francois Ambroise, is celebrated as the publisher of the beautiful " Louvre " editions of See also:Virgil, See also:Horace and See also:Racine. The Racine, in three volumes folio, was pronounced in 18o1 to be " the most perfect typographical See also:production of all ages." FIRMIN DmoT (1764-1836), his brother, second son off Francois Ambroise, sustained the reputation of the family both as printer and type-founder. He revived (if he did not invent—a distinction which in order of See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time belongs to See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Ged) the See also:process of stereotyping, and coined its name, and he first used the process in his edition of Callet's Tables of Logarithms (1795), in which he secured an accuracy till then unattainable. He published stereotyped editions of French, See also:English and See also:Italian classics at a very See also:low See also:price. He was the author of two tragedies—La Reine de See also:Portugal and La Mort d'Annibal; and he wrote metrical See also:translations from Virgil, See also:Tyrtaeus and See also:Theocritus. AMBROISE FIRMIN DIDOT (1790-1876) was his eldest son. After receiving a classical education, he spent three years in See also:Greece and in the See also:East; and on the retirement of his See also:father in 1827 he undertook, in See also:conjunction with his brother Hyacinthe, the direction of the See also:publishing business. Their greatest undertaking was a new edition of the See also:Thesaurus Graecae linguae of Henri See also:Estienne, under the editorial care of the See also:brothers See also:Dindorf and M. Rase (9 vols., 1855-1859). Among the numerous important works published by the brothers, the 200 volumes forming the Bibliotheque See also:des auteurs grecs, Bibliotheque latine, and Bibliotheque . francaise deserve See also:special mention. Ambroise Firmin Didot was the first to propose (1823) a subscription in favour of the Greeks, then in insurrection207
against See also:Turkish tyranny. Besides a See also:translation of See also:Thucydides (1833), he wrote the articles Estienne " in the Nouvelle Biographie generale, and " Typographie " in the Ency. mod., as well as Observations sur l'orthographie fran(aise (1867), &c. In 1875 he published a very learned and elaborate monograph on Aldus See also:Manutius. His collection of See also:MSS., the richest in See also:France, was said to have been See also:worth, at the time of his See also:death, not less than 2,000,000 francs.
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