Encyclopedia

An encyclopedia (or encyclopædia) (of Greek égkyklos, to circulate + paideía, education) is a vast set of all the human knowledge; workmanship that in general deals with all sciences and arts.

Encyclopedias can be generic, I contend articles on the most varied subjects (as Encyclopaedia Britannica), or they can be specialized in one determined subject (as an encyclopedia or ).

The term enciclopedia it only started to be used in century XVI, even so works of enciclopédico format already were known at previous times.

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Enciclopedias Primitive

Some writers of Antiquity (as Aristotle) they had tried to write on all the studied fields of knowledge until then. In century XX, in Constantinopla, it appears a collective workmanship of great interest for the knowledge of the Antiquity Greek. One is about a compilation of workmanships and classified personages of innovative form for alphabetical order that if presents, therefore, as the first encyclopedia: Suda. Although some imprecisões and errors, the Suda contains inestimable information, a time that its authors had had access to the now lost workmanships (the theater of Aristófanes he is one of the beneficiaries).

John Harris, with its Lexicon technicum it is credited in establishing the modern format of an encyclopedia, such as we know it today, but the example most famous of an old encyclopedia has perhaps been Encyclopédie, of 35 volumes, edited for Jean Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert e Denis Diderot in 1772, having as collaborating Rousseau, Voltaire, Montesquieu e other illustrious ensaístas. In the following century, Hegel it publishes its Encyclopedia of Philosophical Sciences, where if [ crystallizes the encyclopedia idea as systematic presentation of one science ] or a set of sciences.

Modern Formats

The hierarchic format and its nature in permanent evolution become perfect white enciclopédicas workmanships for publication in digital format and practically all the great encyclopedias had had a version in CD-ROM in the end of century XX. The version in CD-ROM counts on the advantage of being portable and extremely economic production. Moreover, an encyclopedia in digital format can have contents as animações and audio, impossible to be inserted in a traditional written publication. The inclusion of Hyperlinks binding articles also related it is an enormous advantage of the digital format.

With the advent of had been published encyclopedias on-line that they possess the additional advantage to be brought up to date almost that instantaneamente, in contrast of edition the annual cycle of main encyclopedias printed in paper or CD-ROM.

This article is part of the project Wikipedia, an encyclopedia on-line it exempts and editável for any one.

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