Essai d'une distribution généalogique des Sciences et des Arts principaux  

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Graph representing a genealogical distribution of Knowledge based on the French Encyclopedie from 1780[1][2][3] is a giant plate designed by Chretien Frederic Guillaume Roth and engraved by Robert Bénard, an artist who had been one of the two principal engravers of the Encyclopédie since 1754.

Measuring 985 x 635 mm, this piece was published as a fold-out frontispiece in volume 1 of Pierre Mouchon's Table analytique et raisonnée des matières contenues dans les XXXIII volumes in-folio du Dictionnaire des sciences, des arts et des métiers and in its supplement, Supplément à l'Encyclopédie (Paris, Charles-Joseph Panckoucke, 1780).

This taxonomy of human knowledge based on Diderot's Encyclopedie has also been represented by Jean le Rond d'Alembert and Diderot himself in what's called the "Figurative system of human knowledge".