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Great Books of the Western World is a series of books originally published in the United States in 1952, by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., to present the great books in 54 volumes. The original editors had three criteria for including a book in the series drawn from Western Civilization: the book must be relevant to contemporary matters, and ...
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A Syntopicon: An Index to The Great Ideas (1952; second...
- Harvard Classics
The Harvard Classics, originally marketed as Dr. Eliot's...
- Great Conversation
As such it is a name used in the promotion of the Great...
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Entry for the French word "Amour" (Love) in a paper encyclopedia ( Larousse Universel) and in an online encyclopedia (Wikimini.org). An encyclopedia ( American English) or encyclopaedia ( British English) [1] is a reference work or compendium providing summaries of knowledge, either general or special, to a particular field or discipline.
Conrad Gessner, Historia animalium (Gessner book), 1551–58, 1587. Charles Estienne, Dictionarium historicum, geographicum et poeticum, 1553. Theodor Zwinger (1533–1588), Theatrum Humanae Vitae, 1565. Pal Skalic, philosopher born in Zagreb, first to use the term encyclopedia in the current sense.
History of encyclopedias. Nuremberg Chronicle, printed in 1493, making it one of the best-documented early printed encyclopedias. Encyclopedias have progressed from the beginning of history in written form, through medieval and modern times in print, and most recently, displayed on computer and distributed via computer networks.
Taken together, the Micropædia and Macropædia comprise roughly 40 million words and 24,000 images. [14] The two-volume index has 2,350 pages, listing the 228,274 topics covered in the Britannica, together with 474,675 subentries under those topics. [13]
- As of 2008[update], 4,411 named contributors
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The Great Greek Encyclopedia ( Greek: Μεγάλη Ελληνική Εγκυκλοπαίδεια) is a general knowledge Greek-language encyclopedia, printed initially between 1926 and 1934. The encyclopedia was founded in 1926 by Pavlos Drandakis (1896–1945) after the model of Encyclopædia Britannica. He was helped by many well-known and ...
A book is a set or collection of written, printed, illustrated, or blank sheets, made of paper, parchment, or other material, usually fastened together to hinge at one side, and within protective covers. A single sheet within a book is called a leaf, and each side of a sheet is called a page. In today's world, books that are produced ...