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Notable encyclopedias of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries : nine predecessors of the Encyclopédie

Author:Frank A. Kafker

Summary:The other two encyclopedias are Johann Heinrich Zedler’s German-language Universal-lexicon, by far the longest European encyclopedia of the period, and Gianfrancesco Pivati’s Nuovo dizionario, the first learned alphabetized Italian encyclopedia to be completed.

Print Book, English, 1981

Edition:View all formats and editions

Publisher: Voltaire Foundation, Oxford, 1981

Series:

Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century, 194

Genre:Criticism, interpretation, etc

Physical Description:252 pages ; 24 cm.

ISBN:

9780729402569, 0729402568

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:10645788

Subjects:

1600-1799

Criticism, interpretation, etc

Enciclopedie Storia Sec. 17.-18

Encyclopedias and dictionaries

Encyclopedias and dictionaries History and criticism

Encyclopedieën

Encyclopédie

Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers Recueils d'articles

Encyclopédies et dictionnaires 18e siècle Histoire et critique

Encyclopédies et dictionnaires Histoire et critique

Encyclopédies et dictionnaires anglais Histoire et critique

Encyclopédie

Enzyklopädie

Essays

Geschichte 1600-1800

Geschichte 1674-1751

History

Learning and scholarship

Learning and scholarship History 17th century

Learning and scholarship History 18th century

Savoir et érudition Histoire 17e siècle

Savoir et érudition Histoire 18e siècle

Additional Physical Form Entry:

Online version:

Notable encyclopedias of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

987963671

Contents:

Louis Moréri's Grand dictionnaire historique / Arnold Miller

Antoine Furetière's Dictionnaire universel / Walter W. Ross

Thomas Corneille's Dictionnaire des arts et des sciences / Walter W. Ross

Pierre Bayle's Dictionnaire historique et critique / Paul Burrell

John Harris's Lexicon technicum / Lael Ely Bradshaw

Ephraim Chambers' Cyclopaedia / Lael Ely Bradshaw

Thomas Dyche's New general English dictionary / Lael Ely Bradshaw

Johann Heinrich Zedler's Universal lexicon / Peter E. Carels and Dan Flory

Gianfrancesco Pivati's Nuovo dizionario / Silvano Garofalo

The encyclopédie in relation to the nine predecessors / Frank A. Kafker