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- catalog abstract ""The eighteenth-century English dictionaries of arts and sciences claimed to contain all knowledge that a person of education should possess. These early encyclopaedias responded to the explosion of information by reducing knowledge to essentials, stressing the need for a coherent account of the sciences, and for some time excluding biography and history. Richard Yeo places these scientific dictionaries in a rich cultural framework of debate that includes the classification of knowledge, the tradition of commonplaces, the Republic of Letters, the Enlightenment public sphere, copyright issues and the specialisation of science. He discusses dilemmas involved in the quest for knowledge to be both organised and readily available, examining assumptions about the organisation, communication and control of knowledge in these works. Elegantly illustrated and accessibly written, Encyclopaedic Visions provides a major contribution to Enlightenment studies, the history of science and the history of ideas in general."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b12068075.
- catalog coverage "England Intellectual life 18th century.".
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""The eighteenth-century English dictionaries of arts and sciences claimed to contain all knowledge that a person of education should possess. These early encyclopaedias responded to the explosion of information by reducing knowledge to essentials, stressing the need for a coherent account of the sciences, and for some time excluding biography and history. Richard Yeo places these scientific dictionaries in a rich cultural framework of debate that includes the classification of knowledge, the tradition of commonplaces, the Republic of Letters, the Enlightenment public sphere, copyright issues and the specialisation of science. He discusses dilemmas involved in the quest for knowledge to be both organised and readily available, examining assumptions about the organisation, communication and control of knowledge in these works. Elegantly illustrated and accessibly written, Encyclopaedic Visions provides a major contribution to Enlightenment studies, the history of science and the history of ideas in general."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 284-322) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: the encyclopaedic tradition -- Part I: 1. Encyclopaedias in the Republic of Letters -- 2. Scientific dictionaries and 'compleat' knowledge -- 3. Containing knowledge -- Part II: 4. From commonplace books to encyclopaedias -- 5. 'The best book in the universe': Ephraim Chambers' Cyclopaedia -- 6. Communicating the arts and sciences -- 7. The Encyclopaedia Britannica and the Scottish Enlightenment -- Part III: 8. Copyright and public knowledge -- 9. Why dedicate an encyclopaedia to a king? -- 10. Editors and experts -- Conclusion.".
- catalog extent "xxi, 336 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0521651913".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog spatial "England Intellectual life 18th century.".
- catalog spatial "England.".
- catalog subject "032.09033 21".
- catalog subject "AE1 .Y46 2001".
- catalog subject "Encyclopedias and dictionaries History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Enlightenment England.".
- catalog subject "Learning and scholarship History 18th century.".
- catalog subject "Science Encyclopedias Early works to 1800.".
- catalog subject "Science History 18th century.".
- catalog subject "Science History Encyclopedias History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Science and civilization Early works to 1800.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: the encyclopaedic tradition -- Part I: 1. Encyclopaedias in the Republic of Letters -- 2. Scientific dictionaries and 'compleat' knowledge -- 3. Containing knowledge -- Part II: 4. From commonplace books to encyclopaedias -- 5. 'The best book in the universe': Ephraim Chambers' Cyclopaedia -- 6. Communicating the arts and sciences -- 7. The Encyclopaedia Britannica and the Scottish Enlightenment -- Part III: 8. Copyright and public knowledge -- 9. Why dedicate an encyclopaedia to a king? -- 10. Editors and experts -- Conclusion.".
- catalog title "Encyclopaedic visions : scientific dictionaries and enlightenment culture / Richard Yeo.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "Early works. fast".
- catalog type "Encyclopedias. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".