Chambers's encyclopædia: [A to Belgiojo'so]

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Persistent identifier:: 1868636399

Author:: Chambers, William; Chambers, Robert

Title:: Chambers's encyclopædia

Sub title:: a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people : illustrated with maps and numerous wood engravings

Type of content:: Enzyklopädie

Year of publication:: 1860

Place of publication:: London; Edinburgh; Hannover

Publisher of the original:: W. and R. Chambers

Identifier (digital):: 1868636399

Language:: English

Additional Notes:: Begründet von Ephraim Chambers

Other Title:: Encyclopaedia of universal knowledge for the people

Founder of work:: Chambers, Ephraim

Publisher of the digital copy:: Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB)

Document type:: Multivolume work

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Persistent identifier:: 1869131134

Author:: Chambers, William; Chambers, Robert

Title:: [A to Belgiojo'so]

Scope:: 4 ungezählte Blätter, 824 Seiten, 7 ungezählte gefaltete Blätter

DOI:: 10.14463/KXP:1869131134

Year of publication:: 1860

Place of publication:: Edinburgh; London

Publisher of the original:: W. and R. Chambers

Identifier (digital):: 1869131134

Illustration:: Illustrationen, Karten

Signature of the source:: a 3272(1)

Language:: English

Usage licence:: Public Domain Mark 1.0

Founder of work:: Chambers, Ephraim

Publisher of the digital copy:: Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB)

Place of publication of the digital copy:: Hannover

Year of publication of the original:: 2023

Document type:: Volume

Collection:: Literature and language; General

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Title:: NOTICE.

Document type:: Multivolume work

Structure type:: Section

N.O T, 1.C:-E ET is now considerably more than a hundred years since Ermxaim CHAMBERS gave to the world his Cyclopaedia, or Universal Dictionary of Knowledge—the prototype, as it proved to be, of a number of similar works, in DBritain as well as in other countries, which must have contributed in mo small measure to increase the sum of general intelligence. In nearly all these works there has heen a tendency to depart from the plan of their celebrated original, as concerns some of the great departments of science, literature, and history ; these being usually” presented, not under a variety of specific heads, as they commonly occur to our minds when information is required, but aggregated in large and formal treatises, such as would in themselves form books of considerable bulk, By such a course it is manifest that the serviceableness of an Encyclopzedia as a dictionary for reference is greatly impaired, whatever may be the advantages which on other points are gained. With a view to bring back the Encyclopxdia to its original purpose of a Dictionary of Knowledge, even down to matters of familiar conversation, the Germans formed the plan of their Conversations-Lexicon; a work which, extending to a long series of volumes, has passed through ten editions, and obtained a world-wide celebrity. Believing that a translation of the latest edition of that well-conceived and laboriously executed work would be generally acceptable, the Editors made an arrangement for that purpose with the proprietor, Mr Brockhaus of Leipsic. After some time, however, had been spent in translating, the task of adapting the information to English requirements was found so difficult, that the resolution was taken to bring out a substantially new work, following in its construction the admirable plan of the Conversations-Lexicon, but making use of its valuable matter, only so far as it might be found suitable. CuAMpERS'S ENCYCLOPZEDIA, therefore, although constructed on the basis of the latest edition of the Conversations-Lexicon, is, in no part, a mere translation of that work. All that specially relates to Great Britain and her colonies, as well as to the states of North and South America, is collected from new and more direct sources. The articles also on the physical sciences and practical arts receive greater prominence than in the German work, and are nearly all original, being mostly the work of contributors having special knowledge of the subjects. Xven in the articles of the Conversations-Lexicon relating to Germany and other continental countries, as well as

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