Richard Yeo

Encyclopaedic Visions

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Cultural history of Enlightenment encyclopaedias revealing Enlightenment debates concerning organisation and communication of knowledge.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 208mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 996g
• ISBN-13: 9780521651912
• ISBN-10: 0521651913
• Artikelnr.: 21220755

Autorenporträt

RICHARD YEO is Associate Professor (Reader) in the School of Humanities, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

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.