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Le Spectacle de la Nature (1732-1750) was a popular natural history work in four volumes by French priest Noël-Antoine Pluche (13 November 1688 – 19 November 1761).

The work exemplifies the eighteenth-century 'spectacle of nature' tradition in French and English natural history. It encouraged a skilled culture of close visual observation among amateur naturalists. Some have argued that it paved the way for later scientific museum display practices.

A recent interpretation of the work argues the text held political and social significance in France. It was a work of moral philosophy and political economy, where descriptions of the natural order instilled hierarchical social values amongst the upper-class reading public.

Reception and Translation
Le Spectacle de la Nature was widely read in England, France, Holland, Italy, Germany, and Spain. It was translated into English by Samuel Humphreys (c.1697–1738) and the first English edition of the first volume was published in 1733. In Spain, it served as propaganda for the country's modernisation drive. It also provided a blueprint for accommodating experimental knowledge within the Catholic scholastic tradition.

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