Encyclopedism

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SECONDARY SOURCES

Arnar, Anna S., ed. Encyclopedism from Pliny to Borges. Chicago: University of Chicago Library, 1990.

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Chartier, Roger. The Order of Books: Readers, Authors, and Libraries in Europe between the Fourteenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Translated by Lydia G. Cochrane. Cambridge, U.K.: Polity Press, 1994.

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Kafker, Frank A., ed. Notable Encyclopedias of the Late Eighteenth Century: Eleven Successors of the Encyclopédie. Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, vol. 315. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1994.

Yeo, Richard. Encyclopaedic Visions: Scientific Dictionaries and Enlightenment Culture. Cambridge, U.K., and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Richard Yeo