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2 unusual facts about Cyclopaedia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences


Dictionnaire de Trévoux

From its much expanded second edition (1721) onward, the Dictionnaire de Trévoux came to be respected and widely used, becoming an important source for Ephraim Chambers´ Cyclopaedia (1728) and the Encyclopédie (1751–72) among other works.

Old Jewry

According to Ephraim Chambers' Cyclopaedia, this was the only permitted burial ground for Jews.


Alexander Oliver

Egbert Cleave's "Cleave's Biographical Cyclopaedia of Homeopathic Physicians and Surgeons" (1873) Pg.

Cyclopaedia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences

The bill, after passing the House of Commons, was unexpectedly thrown out by the House of Lords; but fearing that it might be revived, the booksellers thought it best to retreat though more than twenty sheets had been printed.

Denis Diderot

André Le Breton, a bookseller and printer, approached Diderot with a project for the publication of a translation of Ephraim Chambers' Cyclopaedia, or Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences into French, first undertaken by the Englishman John Mills, and followed by the German Gottfried Sellius.

Eriocaulon scariosum

Based on specimen information "communicated from New South Wales in 1792, by John White, M. D.", this species was formally described using this name and in 1819 that was published scientifically by James E. Smith, London, in The Cyclopaedia.

Mithridate

Ephraim Chambers, in his 1728 Cyclopaedia, says "Mithridate is one of the capital Medicines in the Apothecaries Shops, being composed of a vast Number of Drugs, as Opium, Myrrh, Agaric, Saffron, Ginger, Cinnamon, Spikenard, Frankincense, Castor, Pepper, Gentian, &c".

New International Encyclopedia

The International Cyclopaedia was much improved by editors Harry Thurston Peck and Selim Peabody.

Pennsylvania Gazette

The newspaper was first published in 1728 by Samuel Keimer and was the second newspaper to be published in Pennsylvania under the name The Universal Instructor in all Arts and Sciences: and Pennsylvania Gazette, alluding to Keimer's intention to print out a page of Ephraim Chambers' Cyclopaedia, or Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences in each copy.

Universal Cyclopaedia

The name was changed to Universal Cyclopaedia and Atlas in 1902, with editor Rossiter Johnson.

Johnson's Universal Cyclopaedia in turn was a revision of the 1876 Johnson's New Universal Cyclopaedia, which was published in 4 volumes by Alvin J. Johnson & Co., and edited by Frederick Barnard and Arnold Guyot.

The Universal Cyclopaedia was derived from the 1893 Johnson's Universal Cyclopaedia, also edited by Charles Kendall Adams, and published in 8 volumes by Alvin J. Johnson & Co..

The 12 volume Universal Cyclopaedia was edited by Charles Kendall Adams, and was published by D. Appleton & Company in 1900.


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