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- Many homes have no printed encyclopaedia, and very few have more than one, yet in the past two millennia several thousand encyclopaedias have been issued in various parts of the world, and some of these have had many editions.
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Encyclopaedia Britannica is the oldest English-language general encyclopedia. The Encyclopaedia Britannica was first published in 1768, when it began to appear in Edinburgh, and its first digital version debuted in 1981. In 1994 Britannica released the first Internet-based encyclopedia, and Britannica.com was launched in 1999.
Encyclopedias have existed for around 2,000 years, although even older glossaries such as the Babylonian Urra=hubullu and the ancient Chinese Erya are also sometimes described as "encyclopedias".
Since 2016, it has been published exclusively as an online encyclopaedia . Printed for 244 years, the Britannica was the longest-running in-print encyclopaedia in the English language. It was first published between 1768 and 1771 in the Scottish capital of Edinburgh, in three volumes.
Recent multi-volume English-language encyclopedias have included the Americana, Britannica, Chambers, Collier's, Everyman's, Groliers, and World Book. French multi-volume encyclopedias include La Grande Larousse and the Encyclopaedia Universalis, and German examples include the Brockhaus and the Meyers.
Bibliography. List of encyclopedias by date. This is a list of encyclopedias, arranged by time period. For other arrangements, see Lists of encyclopedias . Encyclopedias before 1700. Nine Books of Disciplines by Marcus Terentius Varro (116 BC-27 BC)
The idea of keeping encyclopaedias up-to-date by means of supplements, yearbooks, and so on, dates back more than two centuries. In 1753 a two-volume supplement to the 7th edition of Ephraim Chambers’s Cyclopaedia was compiled by George Lewis Scott, a tutor to the English royal family.
