On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Michael Peelemail@mikepeel.net wrote:
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- The article describes Britannica as "the oldest English language
encyclopedia". In fact, it is the oldest continuously published English language encyclopedia.
Interesting. What was the oldest English language encyclopaedia, then?
According to the encyclopedia article, this one in 1728:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclopaedia,_or_Universal_Dictionary_of_Arts_an...
"The Cyclopaedia was one of the first general encyclopedias to be produced in English."
Another candidate is this one from 1704:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexicon_Technicum
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