Posts tagged with encyclopaedias

  1. Seeing science in early encyclopaedias

    In honour of National Science Week from the 15th to the 23rd of August 2020, we dive into the Special Collections to look at Enlightenment era …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/librarycollections/2020/08/17/seeing-science-in-early-encyclopaedias

  2. Mirror mirror on the wall, whose was the most influential encyclopaedia of them all: the story of Diderot’s radical Encylopédie of sciences, arts and technical crafts

    The heroic task of bringing together and documenting the vast canon of human knowledge in written form, has been accomplished by a select number of individuals …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/librarycollections/2016/08/11/mirror-mirror-on-the-wall-whose-was-the-most-influential-encyclopaedia-of-them-all-the-story-of-diderots-radical-encylopedie-of-sciences-arts-and-technical-crafts