Encyclopaedic visions: scientific dictionaries and enlightenment culture
Auteur :
Yeo, Richard
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9780521651912
Date de publication :
29 mars 2001
Dimensions :
25,6 x 18,3 x 2,6 cm
Poids :
965 g
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.