Category: encyclopedias...

being stranded on a desert island with the Encyclopaedia Britannica and reading A to Z
online encyclopedias updated daily
Greek enkyklios paideia "general education" became English encyclopedia - at first describing a circle or complete system of learning, an all-around education
Denis Diderot's (1772) historic French encyclopedia
the pure and unsophisticated knowledge of the past to aid the progress of the future
Plato's concept that in order to think better, it is necessary to know all and the Roman idea that acquiring all useful knowledge helps one carry out life's tasks competently
the trivium of grammar, logic, and rhetoric - and the quadruvium of geometry, arithmetic, astronomy, and music; the seven liberal arts
(The encyclopedia is) one of the few generalizing influences in a world of overspecialization. It serves to recall that knowledge has unity. (L. Shores)
each new encyclopedia building on the experience and contents of its predecessors
illustrations from old encyclopedias, prized by historians today
the words universe and encyclopedia have an obvious similarity of meaning; one comes from Latin and the other from Greek meaning "totality" or "all-inclusive whole"