Encyclopaedic visions: scientific dictionaries and enlightenment culture
Auteur :
Yeo, Richard
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9780521152921
Date de publication :
10 juin 2010
Dimensions :
24,6 x 18,9 x 1,9 cm
Poids :
480 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Richard Yeo places eighteenth-century English dictionaries of arts and sciences in a rich cultural framework that includes the arrangement of knowledge, the Republic of Letters, copyright debates, and the specialisation of science. This elegantly illustrated book provides a major contribution to Enlightenment studies and the history of ideas.