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1. 

   Notable encyclopedias of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

   nine predecessors of the Encyclopédie

   Av Frank A. Kafker

   Inbunden, 1981

   1625 kr

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   General encyclopedias illuminate the culture of an era, but they tend to be neglected as a subject of scholarly research. This is especially true for the period from 1674 to 1750. Of the more than thirty encyclopedias published in those years, the contributors to this book examine nine of the most …

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   Notable encyclopedias of the late eighteenth century

   eleven successors of the Encyclopédie

   Av Frank A. Kafker

   Inbunden, 1994

   1625 kr

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   General encyclopedias illuminate the culture of an era; yet, except for the first edition of the Encyclopédie, those launched from 1750 to 1800 have received far less attention than the novels, plays, poems, newspapers, and pamphlets of the period. This void in our knowledge is all the more …

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   Encyclopedists as a Group

   A Collective Biography of the Authors of the 'Encyclopédie'

   Av Frank A. Kafker

   Inbunden, 1996

   1625 kr

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   This collective biography examines the similarities and differences among the 140 collaborators identified as having written articles for the seventeen folio volumes of text. It discusses the following topics: the family background, formal education, and occupational choice of the encyclopedists; …

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   Early Britannica

   The Growth of an Outstanding Encyclopedia

   Av Frank A. Kafker, Jeff Loveland

   Häftad, 2009

   1896 kr

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   The Encyclopaedia britannica is a familiar cultural icon, but what do we know about the early editions that helped shape it into the longest continuously published encyclopedia still in existence?This first examination of the three eighteenth-century editions traces the Britannica’s extraordinary …

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   Encyclopedists as Individuals

   A Biographical Dictionary of the Authors of the 'Encyclopédie'

   Av Frank A. Kafker, Serena L. Kafker

   Inbunden, 1988

   1625 kr

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   Although the Encyclopédie is one of the landmarks of eighteenth-century thought and one of the most famous encyclopedias of all time, most of its collaborators are scarcely known. This is unfair and misleading: the editors, Diderot and d’Alembert, were able directors and prolific contributors, but …