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Oct 2, 2025 · When Louis Shores became editor in chief of Collier’s Encyclopedia in 1962, he said that he considered the encyclopaedia to be “one of the few generalizing influences in a world …
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6 days ago · Encyclopaedia Britannica is the oldest English-language general encyclopedia. The Encyclopaedia Britannica was first published in 1768, when it began to appear in Edinburgh, …
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Oct 2, 2025 · Encyclopædia Britannica was designed for the use of the curious and intelligent layman. The editor of The Columbia Encyclopedia in 1935 tried to provide a work that was …
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ENCYCLOPEDIA meaning: a reference work (such as a book, series of books, Web site, or CD-ROM) that contains information about many different subjects or a lot of information about a …
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Oct 2, 2025 · The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (1998), edited by Edward Craig, was the first multivolume encyclopaedia published in the discipline in more than 30 years, and it was …
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Oct 1, 2025 · Denis Diderot, French man of letters and philosopher who, from 1745 to 1772, served as chief editor of the Encyclopedie, one of the principal works of the Age of …
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In encyclopaedia: Online encyclopaedias In 1994 Britannica Online was released for subscription over the Internet. In addition to the full text database and thousands of illustrations, Britannica …