Encyclopaedic Visions: Scientific Dictionaries and Enlightenment CultureThe eighteenth-century English dictionaries of arts and sciences claimed to contain all knowledge that a person of education should possess. 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 specialization of science. He examines assumptions about the organization, communication, and control of knowledge in these works. Elegantly illustrated and clearly written, Encyclopaedic Visions provides a major contribution to Enlightenment studies, the history of science, and the history of ideas in general. |
Contents
Encyclopaedias in the Republic of Letters | 35 |
Scientific dictionaries and compleat knowledge | 59 |
Containing knowledge | 78 |
From commonplace books to encyclopaedias ΙΟΙ | 101 |
Ephraim Chambers | 120 |
Communicating the arts and sciences | 145 |
The Encyclopaedia Britannica and the Scottish | 170 |
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Abraham Rees abridgement alphabetical order arts and sciences authors Bacon Bayle Biographical booksellers chapter chemistry circle cited collection Comenius commonplace books communication compilers Complete Dictionary concept Constable contributors copy culture d'Alembert dedication dictionaries of arts Dictionnaire Diderot Edinburgh editors eighteenth century encyclo encyclopae Encyclopaedia Britannica Encyclopaedia Metropolitana Encyclopédie English Enlightenment entries Ephraim Chambers Essay example French frontispiece Gleig Harris and Chambers Herborn ideas intellectual James Tytler John knowl language learning Leibniz Lexicon Technicum Library literary property Locke's London Magazine major mathematical mechanical arts memory method mixed mathematics modern names Napier natural history natural philosophy Newton Newtonian notion optics preface Preliminary Discourse printed prospectus published readers Rees referred Renaissance Republic of Letters Robison scientific dictionaries Scottish Scottish Enlightenment specialist subjects subscription summary Supplement Thomas Young tion topics translation treatises Tytler Universal Lexicon Voltaire volume words writing Young