John Mills (encyclopedist)
- John Mills (encyclopedist)
John Mills (1717 – 1786 or 1796) was an encyclopedist on the "Encyclopédie." He was originally a writer on agricultural matters from England. He proposed and worked on the "Encyclopédie" with Gottfried Sellius, a native of Gdask, who, after being a professor at Halle and Göttingen and residing in the Netherlands, had settled in Paris.
Mills and Sellius originally proposed simply to translate articles from Chambers' "Cyclopaedia" into French. However, Mills's knowledge of French was inadequate, the publisher André Le Breton was extremely dissatisfied with Mills's work, and Le Breton eventually physically assaulted Mills. Mills took Le Breton to court, but the court decided that Mills's incompetence had warranted the attack. Le Breton replaced Mills with Denis Diderot.
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* [http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rmhttp/downloadtrial/radio4/inourtime/inourtime_20061026-0900_40_st.mp3 A BBC radio programme about the Encyclopédie which briefly refers to Mills]
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