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Specialized dictionaries and encyclopedias, 1650-1800 : a tribute to Frank Kafker /

During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the number of specialized dictionaries and encyclopedias grew from a trickle to a flood, while the number of disciplines they were devoted to grew from a handful to dozens, representing many varieties of knowledge. Specialized dictionaries as most wer...

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Main Authors: Loveland, Jeff (Author, Editor), Schmitt, Stéphane (Author, Editor), Hardesty Doig, Kathleen (Author), Gasparri, Giuliano (Author), Wright, Alexander (Author), McConchie, R. W. (Roderick W.) (Author), Hanson, Craig (Author), Donato, Clorinda (Author), Prodöhl, Ines (Author), Ridel, Elisabeth (Author), Daeffler, Michel (Author), Holmberg, Linn, 1981- (Author), Brown, Gregory S. (Author), Conroy, Melanie (Author)
Corporate Author: Voltaire Foundation (sponsoring organization.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Liverpool : Published by Liverpool University Press on behalf of the Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford, [2024].
Series:Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment ; 2024:03.
Subjects:
Encyclopedias and dictionaries > Europe > History and criticism.
Enlightenment > Europe > Encyclopedias > History and criticism.
Enlightenment > Europe > Dictionaries > History and criticism.
Learning and scholarship > History > 18th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Jeff Loveland and Stéphane Schmitt
  • Antoine Augustin Calmet's Dictionnaire historique, critique, chronologique, géographique et littéral de la Bible (1719) / Kathleen Hardesty Doig
  • Etienne Chauvin's Lexicon rationale (1692) and Lexicon philosophicum (1713) / Giuliano Gasparri
  • A medicinal dictionary (1743-1745) by Robert James: an Enlightenment reference work / Alexander Wright and R. W. McConchie
  • John Barrow's Dictionarium polygraphicum (1735) / Craig Hanson
  • Noël Chomel's Dictionnaire oeconomique (1709) / Clorinda Donato
  • Jacques-Christophe Valmont de Romare's Dictionnaire raisonné universel d'histoire naturelle (1764) / Stéphane Schmitt
  • The Reales Staats- und Zeitungs-Lexicon (1704) / Jeff Loveland
  • The Curieuses Natur- Kunst- Gewerck- und Handlungs-Lexicon (1712) / Ines Prodöhl
  • The Dictionnaire universel de commerce (1723-1730) / Jeff Loveland
  • Nicolas Desroches's Dictionnaire des termes proes de marine (1687); a linguistic tool for seafarers? / Élisabeth Ridel-Granger and Michel Daeffler
  • Sven Rinman's Bergwerks lexicon (1788-1789) and the emergence of mining encyclopedias in preindustrial Europe / Linn Holmberg
  • Frank Kafker and the social history of eighteenth-century encyclopedism / Gregory S. Brown and Melanie Conroy
  • Appendix: bibliography of specialized encyclopedias and dictionaries, 1650-1800.