Book ID: CBB000030831

Notable encyclopedias of the late 18th century: Eleven successors of the Encyclopédie (1994)

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Kafker, Frank A. (Editor)


Voltaire Foundation


Publication Date: 1994
Physical Details: v + 424 pp.; notes; index

Description Contents: Miller, Arnold: The last edition of the Dictionnaire de Trévoux. Morris, Madeleine: The Tuscan editions of the Encyclopédie. Doig, Kathleen Hardesty: The Yverdon Encyclopédie. Doig, Kathleen Hardesty: The quarto and octavo editions of the Encyclopédie. Kafker, Frank A.: William Smellie's edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Werner, Stephen: Abraham Rees's eighteenth-century Cyclopaedia. Arner, Robert D.: Thomas Dobson's American edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Goetschel, Willi, MacLeod, Catriona, Snyder, Emery: The Deutsche Encyclopädie. Denny, Joseph H., Mitchell, Paul M.: Russian translations of the Encyclopédie. Kafker, Frank A.: The influence of the Encyclopédie on the eighteenth-century encyclopedic tradition.


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Review Broman, T. (1995) Review of "Notable encyclopedias of the late 18th century: Eleven successors of the Encyclopédie". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 654-55). unapi

Review Cartwright, M. (1996) Review of "Notable encyclopedias of the late 18th century: Eleven successors of the Encyclopédie". Eighteenth-Century Studies (pp. 332-34). unapi

Review Waquet, F. (1995) Review of "Notable encyclopedias of the late 18th century: Eleven successors of the Encyclopédie". Revue de Synthèse (pp. 490-91). unapi

Review Adams, D.J. (1995) Review of "Notable encyclopedias of the late 18th century: Eleven successors of the Encyclopédie". French History (pp. 373-74). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Loveland, Jeff
Withers, Charles W. J.
Woods, Robert
Alembert, Jean le Rond d'
Arner, Robert D.
Brown, Stephen W.
Journals
Archives of Natural History
Genders
Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History
Medical History
Recherches sur Diderot et sur l' Encyclopédie
Transactions of the International Congress on the Enlightenment
Publishers
University of South Carolina
University of Virginia
Bibliopolis
DME-Verlag
Klincksieck
Liverpool University Press
Concepts
Encyclopedias (history)
Science
Natural history
Nurse midwives
Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Medicine
People
Smellie, William
Diderot, Denis
Rees, Abraham
Walker, John
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc de
Alembert, Jean le Rond d'
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
Enlightenment
Places
France
Great Britain
British Isles
Scotland
Italy
United States
Institutions
University of Edinburgh
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