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The 23rd century BC was a century that lasted from the year 2300 BC to 2201 BC. Events. Ruins of the pyramid complex of Pepi II, possibly the longest reigning monarch in recorded history. 2334 BC – 2279 BC: ( short chronology) Sargon of Akkad 's conquest of Mesopotamia.
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The 23rd century BC is a century which was from the year 2300 BC to 2201 BC. Events. Ruins of the pyramid complex of Pepi II, the longest reigning monarch in recorded history. 2334 BC – 2279 BC: ( short chronology) Sargon of Akkad 's conquest of Mesopotamia. 2333 BC: Beginning of the Gojoseon, the first dynasty and government system in Korea.
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Nine Books of Disciplines by Marcus Terentius Varro(116 BC-27 BC)Naturalis Historia by Pliny the Elder(AD 77-79); highly influential through the Middle Ages, the oldest encyclopedia for which there is an extant copyDe verborum significatione by Sextus Pompeius Festus(2nd century AD)Onomasticon by Julius Pollux(2nd century AD)American encyclopedias
1. Dobson's Encyclopædia (1789–1798; largely a reprint of the Britannica's3rd edition)
British encyclopedias
1. The great historical, geographical, genealogical and poetical dictionary by Jeremy Collier(1701) 2. An Universal, Historical, Geographical, Chronological and Poetical Dictionary(1703) 3. Lexicon Technicum(1704) 4. Chambers's Cyclopaedia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences(1728) 5. An Universal History of Arts and Sciences by Dennis de Coetlogon(1745) 6. Encyclopædia Britannica(1768, editions 2 and 3 by 1797) 7. Chemical Dictionary by William Nicholson(1795) 8. Encyclopædia Per...
Chinese encyclopedias
1. Complete Classics Collection of Ancient China (1725–26), Qing dynasty 2. Complete Library of the Four Treasuries(1782), Qing dynasty
American encyclopedias
1. Minor Encyclopedia (1803), edited by Thaddeus M. Harris, copies much of Kendal's Pocket Encyclopedia 2. Domestic Encyclopedia(1803–1804), first American edition, expanded to 5 volumes (4 in the British); second American edition 1821 3. Low's Encyclopaedia(1805–1811), the first true American encyclopedia 4. Encyclopaedia Americana (1829–1833), 13 volumes, editor Francis Lieber. 5. New American Cyclopaedia (1857–1863), 16 volumes, editors George Ripley and Charles A. Dana 6. American Cyclopa...
Arabic encyclopedias
1. Muhit al-Muhit ("The ocean of oceans"), Butrus al-Bustani(1867)
British encyclopedias
1. Encyclopaedia Londinensis(1801) 2. English Encyclopaedia(1802) 3. Domestic Encyclopedia(1802) 4. Kendal's Pocket Encyclopedia(1802, second edition 1811) 5. Rees's Cyclopædia(1802–1819) 6. Encyclopædia Perthensis(Perth, Scotland, 1803;1816) 7. Encyclopædia Britannica(fourth edition, 1810; ninth edition by 1889) 8. Edinburgh Encyclopædia(1808–1830) 9. British Encyclopedia, or Dictionary of Arts and Sciences(1809) 10. Encyclopædia Edinensis(1816) 11. Pantologia(1813) 12. Encyclopædia Metropol...
Collison, Robert, Encyclopaedias: Their History Throughout the Ages, 2nd ed. (New York, London: Hafner, 1966)
The Britannica was the idea of Colin Macfarquhar, a bookseller and printer, and Andrew Bell, an engraver, both of Edinburgh. They conceived of the Britannica as a conservative reaction to the French Encyclopédie of Denis Diderot (published 1751–1766), which was widely viewed as heretical.
23rd century BC in Egypt (4 C, 2 P) 23rd-century BC establishments (2 C, 8 P)
E. People of the Sixth Dynasty of Egypt (3 C, 18 P) People of the Eighth Dynasty of Egypt (2 C, 2 P) 23rd-century BC Egyptian people (1 C, 3 P)
