Encyclopaedic Visions: Scientific Dictionaries and Enlightenment Culture

by Richard Yeo

Book Overview

The eighteenth-century English dictionaries of arts and sciences claimed to contain all knowledge that a person of education should possess. Richard Yeo places these scientific dictionaries in a rich cultural framework of debate that includes the classification of knowledge, the tradition of commonplaces, the Republic of Letters, the Enlightenment public sphere, copyright issues, and the specialization of science. He examines assumptions about the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521152925
• ISBN13: 9780521152921
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.4" x 9.7"