An edition was also published in Dublin in 1742 this and the London editions were all 2 volumes in folio. The bill, after passing the House of Commons, was unexpectedly thrown out by the House of Lords but fearing that it might be revived, the booksellers thought it best to retreat though more than twenty sheets had been printed.įive other editions were published in London from 1739 to 1751–1752. Chambers was prevented from doing more because the booksellers were alarmed by a bill in Parliament containing a clause to oblige the publishers of all improved editions of books to print their improvements separately. This edition was supposedly retouched and amended in a thousand places, with a few added articles and some enlarged articles. Among other things, the preface gives an analysis of forty-seven divisions of knowledge, with classed lists of the articles belonging to each, intended to serve as a table of contents and also as a directory indicating the order in which the articles should be read.Ī second edition appeared in 1738 in two volumes in folio, with 2,466 pages. The first edition included numerous cross-references meant to connect articles scattered by the use of alphabetical order, a dedication to the king, George II, and a philosophical preface at the beginning of Volume 1. The Whole intended as a Course of Antient and Modern Learning. among Philosophers, Divines, Mathematicians, Physicians, Antiquaries, Criticks, &c. The title-page of the first edition summarizes the aims of the author:Ĭyclopædia: or, An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences containing the Definitions of the Terms, and Accounts of the Things signify'd thereby, in the several Arts, both Liberal and Mechanical, and the several Sciences, Human and Divine: the Figures, Kinds, Properties, Productions, Preparations, and Uses, of Things Natural and Artificial the Rise, Progress, and State of Things Ecclesiastical, Civil, Military, and Commercial: with the several Systems, Sects, Opinions, &c. The Cyclopædia was one of the first general encyclopedias to be produced in English. Cyclopædia: or, An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences is an encyclopedia prepared by Ephraim Chambers and first published in 1728 six more editions appeared between 17 with a Supplement in 1753.
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