Encyclopaedic Visions - Scientific Dictionaries and Enlightenment Culture

Klappentext Cultural history of Enlightenment encyclopaedias revealing Enlightenment debates concerning organisation and communication of knowledge. Zusammenfassung Richard Yeo places eighteenth-century English dictionaries of arts and sciences in a rich cultural framework that includes the arrangement of knowledge! the Republic of Letters! copyright debates! and the specialisation of science. This elegantly illustrated book provides a major contribution to Enlightenment studies and the history of ideas. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Yeo, Richard (Griffith University Yeo
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.06.2010
• EAN: 9780521152921
• ISBN: 978-0-521-15292-1
• No. of pages: 360
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; History of Ideas, SCIENCE / History, HISTORY / Social History, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, History of Science, C 1700 To C 1800