{"product_id":"encyclopaedic-visions-scientific-dictionaries-and-enlightenment-culture-paperback-9780521152921","title":"Encyclopaedic Visions; Scientific Dictionaries and Enlightenment Culture (Paperback) 9780521152921","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eEncyclopaedic Visions\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eScientific Dictionaries and Enlightenment Culture\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCultural history of Enlightenment encyclopaedias revealing Enlightenment debates concerning organisation and communication of knowledge.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRichard Yeo (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521152921, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 10 June 2010\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e360 pages\u003cbr\u003e24.6 x 18.9 x 1.9 cm, 0.48 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eReview of the hardback: 'It is a wonderful virtue of Yeo's work that it uses one text to cut across so many pressing problems of Enlightenment science and literary culture … a fundamentally groundbreaking work.' Brill\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: the encyclopaedic tradition\u003cbr\u003e Part I: 1. Encyclopaedias in the Republic of Letters\u003cbr\u003e 2. Scientific dictionaries and 'compleat' knowledge\u003cbr\u003e 3. Containing knowledge\u003cbr\u003e Part II: 4. From commonplace books to encyclopaedias\u003cbr\u003e 5. 'The best book in the universe': Ephraim Chambers' Cyclopaedia\u003cbr\u003e 6. Communicating the arts and sciences\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Encyclopaedia Britannica and the Scottish Enlightenment\u003cbr\u003e Part III: 8. Copyright and public knowledge\u003cbr\u003e 9. Why dedicate an encyclopaedia to a king?\u003cbr\u003e 10. Editors and experts\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: History of science [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of science\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20science%20%5BPDX%5D%22\"\u003ePDX\u003c\/a\u003e], History of ideas [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of ideas\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20ideas%20%5BJFCX%5D%22\"\u003eJFCX\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46005247541528,"sku":"9780521152921","price":33.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521152921i_ecaf5c93-9ef2-428d-a67e-ab7dbdc5c2e1.jpg?v=1691372664","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/encyclopaedic-visions-scientific-dictionaries-and-enlightenment-culture-paperback-9780521152921","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}