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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
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cyclopaedia XVII. Clipped form of
ENCYCLOPAEDIA (in Gr. form in the title of ‘Lucubrationes vel potius absolutissime κυκλοπαιδείἁ by Joachim Fortius Ringelbergius, 1541). As the title of an English work it appears first in Ephraim Chambers's
‘Cyclopædia, or General Dictionary of Arts and Sciences’ (1728).
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Chambers, Ephraim
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Chambers, Ephraim (d. 1740), published his Cyclopaedia , the first true English encyclopaedia (which has no connection with the current Chambers's Encyclopaedia ) in 1728.
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Rossiter Johnson
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
1840-1931, American editor, b. Rochester, N.Y. He was associate editor (1873-77) of the American Cyclopaedia, editor (1883-1902) of the Annual Cyclopedia, and managing editor (1886-89) of the Cyclopedia of American Biography. He originated...
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Encyclop é die
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...as a modest business venture, the Encyclop é die was planned to be simply a French translation of Ephraim Chambers's Cyclopaedia, published in England in 1728. Entrusted to Jean Le Rond d'Alembert (1717 – 1783) and Denis Diderot (1713 –...
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John Lindley
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...professor of botany at the Univ. of London (later University College). Lindley wrote the botanical articles for the Penny Cyclopaedia and a major portion of those in Loudon's Encyclopaedia of Plants. He also wrote The Fossil Flora of Great Britain (with William...
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Mackintosh, Sir James
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...Dissertation on the Progress of Ethical Philosophy (1830) and wrote the first three volumes of a History of England (1830–1) for Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia , as well as an unfinished History of the Revolution in England in 1688 (1834).
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