Knowledge and the Systematic Reader: The Past and Present of Encyclopedic Learning
Though digital media have unquestionably affected the features and functions of modern encyclopedias, such works also continue to be shaped by factors thoroughly conventional by the end of the historical Enlightenment. As William Smellie, editor of the first Encyclopedia Britannica (1768-71) wrote,...
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Linköping University Electronic Press
2014-06-01
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| Series: | Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research |
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/cu.2000.1525.146505 |