Könyv Encyclopaedic Visions Richard Yeo

Encyclopaedic Visions

Scientific Dictionaries and Enlightenment Culture

Szerző: Richard Yeo
Nyelv: Angol
Kötés: Puha kötésű
Elérhetőség: Beszállítói készleten
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The eighteenth-century English dictionaries of arts and sciences claimed to contain all knowledge th...

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Szerző
Nyelv
Angol
Kötés
Könyv - Puha kötésű
Kiadva
2010
oldal
360
EAN
9780521152921
ISBN
0521152925
Enbook ID
02023994
Súly
652
Méretek
190 x 241 x 21

Teljes leírás

The eighteenth-century English dictionaries of arts and sciences claimed to contain all knowledge that a person of education should possess. These early encyclopaedias responded to the explosion of information by reducing knowledge to essentials, stressing the need for a coherent account of the sciences, and for some time excluding biography and history. Richard Yeo places these scientific dictionaries in a rich cultural framework of debate that includes the arrangement of knowledge, the Republic of Letters, the Enlightenment public sphere, copyright issues and the specialisation of science. He discusses dilemmas involved in the quest for knowledge to be both organised and readily available, examining assumptions about the organisation, communication and control of knowledge in these works. Elegantly illustrated and accessibly written, Encyclopaedic Visions provides a major contribution to Enlightenment studies and the history of ideas in general.

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