Details of an old encyclopedia

Pliny the elder

Encyclopedias have been on this earth for 2000 years. The oldest is written the elder Naturalis Historia by Pliny in Roman times. It spread out over 37 sections on art and building construction, natural history, medicine, geography, geology, and every other facet that was next to him. Compiled the facts from 2000 different works by 200 authors, but he was unable, proof of the entries read. It was published in AD 77-79. Earlier, the works of Marcus Terentius Varro already existed, but was lost in time.

Middle ages

Etymologiae (around 630) was collected as the first encyclopedia of the middle ages by Isidore of Seville, a great scholar of the Middle Ages known. This encyclopedia is spreads of 448 chapters in 20 volumes with quotes and excerpts from the work of other authors.

Reference to mostly Bartholomeus Anglicus the high middle ages saw de Proprietatibus rerum (1240).
Vincent of Beauvais Speculum majus (1260) was pretty progressive with over 3 million words in the late medieval period.

The Suda is a big encyclopedia of Byzantine times of the ancient Mediterranean world. It is written in the style of the Greek lexicon with 30,000 entries.

17-19.

The modern idea of a printed encyclopedia, which could be fully distributed for general use, came with Chambers' Cyclopaedia (1728) and the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert (from 1751), as well as encyclopedia and conversations-Lexikon. These were global issues, which had a broad framework and have been detailed and organized. The Chamber dictionary followed perhaps the direction of John Harris lexicon Technicum.

Sir Thomas Browne, used famous English scientist and physician the word encyclopedia in 1646 in his vulgar errors, where common errors of his time were refuted. This encyclopedia has been structured on the proven system of the Renaissance or 'Level of creation'. It is the hierarchical structure from mineral, plant, animal, human and planetary and cosmological worlds.

John Harris is he believe, now for the alphabetic format in 1704 with his Lexicon Technicum introduced: A universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: to explain not only the conditions of the art, but the art itself "." It emphasizes science such as in the understanding of the century, still subjects beyond science include Humanities and art such as law, Commerce, music, and Heraldry.

20Th century

In the early 1920s, Harmsworth of universal encyclopedia and children's encyclopedia has been popular and low-cost resources. In the United States of the 50's and 60's saw several large editions is introduced and gain popularity. They were sold through rates. The best came WorldBook and funk and Wagnalls.

Several encyclopedias have been published in the second half. Their work was notable because she won synthesized important topics in certain areas, through new research. The encyclopedia of philosophy, and Elsevier's handbooks in Economics were 2 such books. Most academic disciplines are a dedicated band including narrow topics such as bioethics and African American history.

Search for various old encyclopedias from different years to compare author and definitions of same words. Sometimes, this research can to see how our knowledge of the time were changed. You can also see some parts of the old encyclopedias online at http://knolik.com/.

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