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Encyclopedia | Encyclopedia | | encyclopaedia, also spelled ENCYCLOPEDIA (from the Greek enkyklios paideia, “general educationâ€), a reference work that contains information on all branches of knowledge or that treats a particular branch of knowledge in a comprehensive manner.
The text article covers general and specialized encyclopaedias from the Middle Ages
till modern times. It examines the role of encyclopaedias, the types of material included in them, and the levels of presentation. It reviews the kinds of encyclopaedias available during various periods and in various regions, surveying the history of encyclopaedias in both the Eastern and Western worlds from classical times to the present.
Encyclopdia Britannica, the oldest and
largest English language general encyclopaedia. The Britannica has been continuously published since 1768, when its first edition
to appear in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Encyclopaedia Metropolitana, English encyclopaedia published from 1817 to 1845, arranged systematically and topically rather than alphabetically. Composed of 25 volumes of text, three of plates, and an alphabetical one-volume index, it professed to treat completely the sciences and systematic arts in their natural sequence.
The system of arrangement for the articles, with some alteration by the publisher, was drawn up in 1817 by the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Coleridge divided the topics to be treated in the encyclopaedia into five classes:
pure sciences, mixed and applied sciences, biographical and historical information, miscellaneous and lexicographical information, and an analytical index. |
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