Notable encyclopedias of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
Subtitle: nine predecessors of the Encyclopédie
By: edited by Frank A. Kafker.
Contributors: Kafker, Frank A.
Series: Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century,; 194
Publisher: Voltaire Foundation; Voltaire Foundation in Association with Liverpool University Press; Voltaire Foundation in association with Liverpool University Press
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries -- History and criticism.; Learning and scholarship -- History -- 17th century.; Learning and scholarship -- History -- 18th century.
Other titles: Notable encyclopedias of the 17th and 18th centuries.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
Table of contents: title: Louis Moréri's Grand dictionnaire historique / Arnold Miller; title: Antoine Furetière's Dictionnaire universel / Walter W. Ross; title: Thomas Corneille's Dictionnaire des arts et des sciences / Walter W. Ross; title: Pierre Bayle's Dictionnaire historique et critique / Paul Burrell; title: John Harris's Lexicon technicum / Lael Ely Bradshaw; title: Ephraim Chambers' Cyclopaedia / Lael Ely Bradshaw; title: Thomas Dyche's New general English dictionary / Lael Ely Bradshaw; title: Johann Heinrich Zedler's Universal lexicon / Peter E. Carels and Dan Flory; title: Gianfrancesco Pivati's Nuovo dizionario / Silvano Garofalo; title: The encyclopédie in relation to the nine predecessors / Frank A. Kafker.