List Of Encyclopedias

• Pliny's Natural History AD 77. Highly influential in the Middle Ages.


• Cassiodorus ' ''Institutiones'', AD 560. First Christian encyclopedia.


• St. Isidore Of Seville 's '' Etymologiae '', AD 636. Christian encyclopedia, most influential encyclopedia of the early Middle Ages.


• Fa Yüan Chu Lin , AD 668, a buddhist encyclopedia of 100 volumes, compiled by Tao-shih


• ''Adab al-katib'' ''(The book of knowledge)'' by Ibn Qutayba (828–889). Earliest Arabic work that could be called an Encyclopedia.


• '' Bibliotheke '' by Patriarch Photius (9th century). Earliest Byzantine work that could be called an Encyclopedia.


• Hrabanus Maurus , 842. ''De rerum naturis (On the nature of things)''. Derived from Isidore's text.


• '' Suda '' (10th century)


• Bartholomeus De Glanvilla , ''De proprietatibus rerum'', 1240. The most widely read and quoted encyclopedia in the late-medieval period.


• Vincent Of Beauvais , ''Speculum Majus'', 1260. The most ambitious encyclopedia in the late-medieval period over 3 million words.


• '' Yongle Encyclopedia '' (1403–1408). Ming Dynasty Chinese encyclopedia.


• Pavao Skalic , Croatian philosopher from Zagreb , first to use the term ''encyclopedia'' in the current sense. ''Encyclopediae seu orbis disciplinarum tam sacrarum quam profanarum epistemon'', 1559 (Basel, Switzerland), 1571 (Köln, Germany).


• Theodor Zwinger (1533–1588), ''Theatrum Vitae Humanae'', 1588.


• Sir Thomas Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 1646-1672


• Louis Moréri ''The Great Historical Dictionary'', 1671.


• Pierre Bayle ''Historical and Critical Dictionary'', 1695.


• Vincenzo Coronelli publisher of ''Biblioteca Universale Sacro-Profana'' early 18th century, the first encyclopedia to be alphabetical.


• John Henry Alsted


• John Jacob Hoffman

• '' Lexicon Technicum '' (1704)


• '' Wakan Sansai Zue '' (1712).


• '' Cyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary Of Arts And Sciences '' (1728 and later eds; usually cited as Chambers's Cyclopaedia)


• '' An Universal History Of Arts And Sciences '' (1745)


• '' Encyclopædia Britannica '' (1771, and eds 2 and 3 by 1800)


• '' Encyclopædia Perthensis '' (1796–1806, ed 2 by 1816)

• '' Encyclopédie '' (1751–1772)


• '' Encyclopédie Méthodique '' ( Panckoucke ) 1782–1832

• '' Grosses Vollständiges Universal-Lexicon '' (1751–1754)


• '' Conversations Lexikon Mit Vorzüglicher Rücksicht Auf Die Gegenwärtigen Zeiten '' (1796–1808; see Brockhaus )

• '' Rees's Cyclopaedia '' (1802–1819)


• '' Encyclopædia Britannica '' (eds 4–9 by 1900)


• '' Edinburgh Encyclopaedia '' (1808)


• '' British Encyclopaedia '' (1809)


• '' Encyclopaedia Londinensis '' (1810)


• '' Pantologia '' (1813)


• '' Encyclopaedia Metropolitana '' (1817–1845)


• '' Penny Cyclopaedia '' (1833–1846)


• '' English Encyclopaedia '' (1854–1862, supp. 1869–1873)


• '' Chambers's Encyclopaedia '' (1860–1868; no relation to Chambers's ''Cyclopaedia'' of the C18)


• '' Pears' Cyclopedia '' (1st ed. 1897)

• '' Engineer's And Mechanic's Encyclopaedia '' (1836/1837; 2nd ed. 1849; often cited as Hebert's ''Encyclopaedia'')


• '' Cyclopaedia Of Useful Arts And Manufactures '' (1852; often cited as Tomlinson's ''Cyclopaedia'')


• '' A Dictionary Of Greek And Roman Antiquities '' (1842)


• '' Dictionary Of Greek And Roman Biography And Mythology '' (1870)

• '' Encyclopaedia Americana '', Francis Lieber (1829–1858)


• '' New American Encyclopaedia '' (1858–1863 and annual supplements to 1902)


• '' American Encyclopaedia '' (1873–1876)


• '' New Universal Encyclopaedia '' (1875–1877)


• '' Johnson's Universal Encyclopaedia '' (1893–1895)


• '' International Encyclopaedia '' (1884–1898)


• '' Academic American Encyclopedia ''

• '' Winkler Prins Geïllustreerde Encyclopaedie '' (1870-1882; 2nd ed. 1884-1888)

• '' Encyclopédie Méthodique '' ( Panckoucke ) 1782–1832


• '' Encyclopédie Nouvelle '' ( Pierre Leroux and Jean Reynaud ) 1839–1840


• '' Grand Dictionnaire Universel Du XIXe Siècle by Pierre Larousse (17 volumes 1866–1877) —really an encyclopedia despite its name


• '' and André Berthelot (31 volumes 1886–1902)

• '' Oekonomische Encyklopädie (General System of State, City, Home and Agriculture)'' Editor Johann Georg Krünitz (242 Volumes 1773–1858)


• '' Brockhaus '' (eds. 1–14 by 1900)


• '' Pierers Universal-Lexikon '' (1824–1836; 7th ed. 1888–1893)


• '' Meyers Konversations-Lexikon '' (1839–1855; 5th ed. 1893–1897)


• '' Herders Konversations-Lexikon '' (1854–1857; 2nd ed. 1875–1879)

• '' Nordisk Familjebok '' (1876–1899; 2nd ed. 1904–1926)

• '' Encyclopædia Britannica '' (eds. 10–16 by 2000)


• '' Harmsworth's Encyclopaedia '' (1905; known in the USA as ''Nelson's Encyclopaedia'')


• '' Everyman Encyclopaedia '' (c. 1910)


• '' The Children's Encyclopedia '' (1911)


• '' World Book Encyclopedia '' (1917)


• '' Encyclopedia International '' (1963)


• '' Encyclopedia Of Desalination And Water And Water Resources ''


• '' Encarta '' (1993) (incorporating some content from Funk And Wagnalls )


• '' Encyclopedia Of Life Support Systems ''


• '' Funk And Wagnalls '' (1912–2001?)


• '' Encyclopedia Mythica '' (1995)

American encyclopedias

• '' New International Encyclopaedia '' (1902)


• '' Collier's Encyclopedia '' (1951–1952)


• '' The Nuttall Encyclopaedia ''


• '' Dictionary Of The Middle Ages '' (1982–1989)

Chinese encyclopedias

• '' Chinese Children's Encyclopedia '' ??????


• '' Cihai '', combines dictionary and encyclopedia, ??

Dutch encyclopedias

• '' Winkler Prins Geïllustreerde Encyclopaedie '' (3rd ed. 1905-1912; 9th ed. 1990-1993)


• '' Oosthoek's Geïllustreerde Encyclopaedie '' (1916-1923; 7th ed. 1976-1981)


• '' Grote Nederlandse Larousse Encyclopedie '' (1971-1979)


• '' Grote Spectrum Encyclopedie '' (1974-1980)


• Dutch columnist '' Battus '' wrote a parody encyclopaedia with fake articles called ''De encyclopedie'' (1978).

French encyclopedias

• '' Encyclopædia Universalis '' (1968–....)


• '' Claude Augé Nouveau Petit Larousse Illustré ''

German encyclopedias

• '' Brockhaus '' (eds. 15–20 by 2000)


• '' Meyers Konversations-Lexikon '' (6th ed. 1902–1908; 9th (final) ed. 1971–1979)


• '' Herders Konversations-Lexikon '' (3rd ed. 1902–1907; 5th ed. 1952–1956)

Iranian encyclopedias

• '' Encyclopedia Iranica '' (1979)


• '' Treasure Box Of Knowledge '' (1993)

Religious encyclopedias

• '' Jewish Encyclopedia '' (1901–1906)


• '' Encyclopedia Judaica ''


• '' Catholic Encyclopedia '' (1913)


• '' Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia Of Religious Knowledge '' (1914; Public Domain since 2004)


• '' Encyclopedia Of Mormonism '' (1992)


• '' Orthodox Encyclopedia '' (Serbe)


• '' Encyclopedia Of Islam ''

Russian encyclopedias

• '' Great Soviet Encyclopedia ''

GENERAL


Printed works


English Language

• '' The Children's Encyclopedia '', by Arthur Mee .


• '' Collier's Encyclopedia ''


• '' last published in 2000 .


• '' last published in 1997 .


• '' Compton's Encyclopedia '': 26 volume encyclopedia


• '' Encyclopedia Americana '': both a print work and currently a part of Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia.


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• '' Funk And Wagnalls ''


• '' Grolier's Encyclopedia ''


• '' Grolier Encyclopedia Of Knowledge '': 20 volumes of equal length


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• The Poets' Encyclopedia edited by Michael Andre


• '' last published in 1990


• '' Pears Cyclopaedia '': a one-volume encylopaedia published annually in the United Kingdom


• '' in 2002 and edited by David Crystal


• '' World Book '': designed for family use, World Book claims to be the world's best selling print encyclopedia

Spanish Language

• '' Diccionario Enciclopédico Espasa ''


• '' Diccionario Enciclopédico Hispano-Americano De Literatura, Ciencias Y Artes '': Barcelona, Montaner y Simón,1887-1899, reprints and appendices up to 1910. Wonderful and very readable articles, many of them written by known Spanish scholars of the day. Reprinted by the London editor Walter M. Jackson (C. H. Simonds Company, Impresores, Boston, Estados Unidos de Norte América). See reference at http://www.filosofia.org/enc/eha/eha.htm


• '' Enciclopedia Encarta ''


• '' Enciclopedia Universal Ilustrada Europeo-americana ''; the biggest encyclopedia of its time. Also known as Enciclopedia Espasa o Enciclopedia Espasa-Calpe


• '' Enciclopedia Labor ''


• '' Enciclopedia Libre Universal '' also known as ''Enciclopedia Libre''


• '' Enciclopedia Salvat ''


• '' Gran Enciclopedia Planeta '', 20 volume, DVD and on-line encyclopedia, 2004


• '' Nueva Enciclopedia Durvan ''

Other languages

• '' encyclopaedia by Ersch and Gruber


• '' Brockhaus '': German encyclopedia


• '' imperial encyclopedia in 86 volumes


• '' Den Store Danske Encyklopædi '' (The Great Danish Encyclopedia) in Danish


• '' Enciklopedija Jugoslavije '' in Croatian and Serbian


• '' Enciklopedija Slovenije '' in Slovenian


• '' Enciclopedia României '' in Romanian (1939)


• ''; here were 3 editions, 3rd edition of 1969-1978 contains 30 volumes


• '' Grosses Vollständiges Universal-Lexicon '': huge 18th-century German encyclopedia by Johann Heinrich Zedler


• '' encyclopedia completed in 1725 (10 million Chinese characters)


• '' Lexicon Universale '' in Latin (1698)


• '' Musik In Geschichte Und Gegenwart (1999): 27 volume German encyclopedia of music and musicians


• '' Meyers Konversations-Lexikon ''; in German


• '' (The Maritime Encyclopedia)


• ''


• '' (Technical encyclopedia)


• '' (The Encyclopedia of Croatian Art), (2005)


• '' (The Film encyclopedia)


• ''


• ''


• '' encyclopedia published between 1888 - 1908 and 1930 - 1943


• '' Vojna Enciklopedija '' in Serbian (The Military Encyclopedia)


• '' Wielka Encyklopedia Powszechna PWN '', 13 volumes, 1962 - 1970 , the largest encyclopedia to date in Polish


• '' Wielka Encyklopedia PWN '', 2001 - 2005 , the successor to the WEP PWN; larger and more objective, it is currently being finished

On CD-ROM, DVD-ROM and/or the Internet

• AllRefer.com: Columbia Encyclopedia


• Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia : only available in electronic form.


• Encyclopædia Britannica . See also the '' 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica ''.


• Encyclopedia of Kirill and Mefodiy : in Russian .


• Gran Enciclopedia Planeta , in Spanish .


• . It is only available in electronic form.


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• Rubricon : in Russian .


• software, licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License .


• World Book

Website only

• encyclopedia using Wiki software, released under the GFDL .


• Encyclopedia Of Life Sciences


• Encyclopaedia Of Turkey : An online encyclopedia about Turkey and Anatolian Culture.


• EncycloZine : an online encyclopedia of books and knowledge.


• Everything2


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• Hierarchypedia : an online encyclopedia using Wikimedia that is no longer online.


• Internet FAQ archives


• Netcyclo : John Anderson's Internet encyclopedia project.


• ed, Open Content encyclopedia project, currently inactive.


• .


• .


• encyclopedia using Wiki software.


• Wikinfo : although based structurally on Wikipedia, it is not a Wikimedia project.


• encyclopedia using Wiki software, released under the GFDL .


• encyclopedia using Wiki software, released under the BSD DPL .

SPECIALIZED


National, regional, ethnic or cultural


Africa

• '' Encyclopedia Zimbabwe ''

Australian

• '' The Australian Encyclopedia (1926) '' - 1926


• '' The Australian Encyclopedia (1958) '' - 1958


• '' Encyclopaedia Of Australia '' - 1968


• '' Encyclopedia Of Melbourne '' Sept 2005. Edited by Andrew Brown-May and Shurlee Swain. 864 pp. ISBN 9780521842341 - Online version

Austria

• '' Aeiou Encyclopedia '' ( 1996 ff.) Austrian

Canadian

• '''' - ( 1898 - 1900 )


• '' Canada And Its Province '' - ( 1913 - 1917 )


• '' Canadian Encyclopedia '' - ( 1985 and 1988 )


• '' Encyclopedia Canadiana '' - ( 1957 )


• '' The Encyclopedia Of Canada '' - ( 1935 - 1937 )


• '' Encyclopedia Of Music In Canada '' - ( 1981 and 1992 )


• '' The Junior Encyclopedia Of Canada '' - ( 1989 )

Croatia

• '' Opća Enciklopedija JLZ '' - ( 1977 - 1982 )


• '' Hrvatska Opća Enciklopedija '' (started in 1999 - 7th vol. 2005 of 11)


• '' Opća I Nacionalna Enciklopedija '' ( 2005 - complete 2007 )

Iranian

• '' dictionary edited by Dr. Ali Akbar Dehkhoda


• '' and Iran (Persia)


• '' encyclopedia edited by Gholamhossein Mosahab , partially based on the early editions of the Columbia Encyclopedia


• '' Encyclopaedia Of Iran And Islam '' published in Persian in Tehran


• '' Encyclopaedia Of Persian Language And Literature '' published by the Academy Of Persian Language And Literature in Persian in Tehran


• '' The Encyclopedia Of Iranian Old Music '': Published in Tehran, 2000.

London

• '' The London Encyclopaedia '' 1007 page reference of the city of London , pub. 1983

New Zealand

• '' Encylopedia Of New Zealand (1966)


• '' Te Ara Encyclopedia Of New Zealand '' - online

Poland

• '' Encyklopedia Polski '' (Encyclopedia of Poland).


• '' Encyklopedia Powszechna PWN '' (PWN Universal Encyclopedia).

Slovenia

• '' Enciklopedija Slovenije '' - published in 1987-2002

South Asia

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United States

• '' Encyclopedia Of New Jersey ''


• '' Handbook Of Texas ''

Subject


Entertainment

• '' created by All Media Guide .


• '' created by All Media Guide .


• '' created by All Media Guide .


• '' The Film Encyclopedia ''

Fiction

• Celestial Emporium Of Benevolent Knowledge , a fictional Chinese encyclopedia invented by Jorge Luis Borges


• Encyclopedia Galactica was created and referenced by Isaac Asimov 's Foundation Series .


• The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy pays homage to the Encyclopedia Galactica, but is apparently better because it is slightly cheaper and has the words "Don't Panic" written on the cover.


• '' The Rocklopedia Fakebandica '' by T. Mike Childs, pub. 2004


• '' The Star Trek Encyclopedia ''

History and biography

• '' Appleton's Cyclopedia Of American Biography '': 19th century Americans


• '' Children's Encyclopedia Of American History ''


• ''s and War s throughout history.


• '' An Encyclopedia Of World History '': single-volume work. First Edition, 1940. Sixth Edition, 2001.


• '' Encyklopedia Polski '' (Encyclopedia of Poland).


• '' Harper's Encyclopedia Of United States History From 458 to 1905'': Harper & Brothers


• '' Historical Dictionary Of Switzerland '' {Link without Title} , historical encyclopedia of Switzerland in German, French and Italian, (Print edition: 2002-).


• '' The Kingfisher History Encyclopedia ''


• '' Oxford Classical Dictionary '': Despite the name, a one-volume encyclopedia for antiquity.


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• ''Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft'': Pauly-Wissowa (Eds.) (1894-1980; specialising in classical antiquity).

Judaism

• '' Encyclopedia Judaica '': published 1972-1991.


• '' Jewish Encyclopedia '': published 1901-1906. Original full 12 volumes.


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• '' Jewish Virtual Library ''


• '' Shorter Jewish Encyclopedia in Russian '': 11 volumes, published 1976-2005 in Jerusalem .

Literature

• '' Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia ''


• '' Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia Of American Literature ''


• '' The Cambridge History Of English And American Literature ''


• '' The Encyclopedia Of Science Fiction '', First edition 1979 , second edition (April 1993 ), by John Clute and Peter Nicholls


• '' The Literary Encyclopedia '', online, started in 2000

Mathematics

• '' Encyclopedic Dictionary Of Mathematics '' (EDM2), Second edition 1993, The Mathematical Society of Japan. The preferred reference of professionals.


• Mathworld online encyclopedia by Eric Weisstein


• CRC Concise Encyclopedia Of Mathematics , Second edition 2002, based on Mathworld


• Planetmath


• On-Line Encyclopedia Of Integer Sequences (OEIS)

Medicine

• '' American Medical Association Complete Medical Encyclopedia ''


• '' Encyclopedia Of Natural Medicine ''


• '' Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary ''

Religion (other)

• '' Catholic Encyclopedia ''


• '' Encyclopedia Of Mormonism ''


• '' OrthodoxWiki ''

Sports

• '''', 10th Edition, 1996 ISBN 0028614356


• '' Total Baseball, The Ultimate Baseball Encyclopedia '', 2004, by John Thorn et al


• '' Total Tennis, The Ultimate Tennis Encyclopedia '', 2003, by Bud Collins


• '' The New Encyclopedia Of Modern Bodybuilding ''


• '''', 2004, by David Neft et al


• '' L'Encyclopédie Des Sports. Plus De 3000 Sports Et Jeux Du Monde Entier '', 2005, Grund


• '' World Sports Encyclopedia '', 2003, Atena/MBI

Other

• '' plants.


• '' American Horticultural Society Encyclopedia Of Plants And Flowers ''


• '' The Complete Encyclopedia Of World Aircraft '': 1997, one large volume


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• enthusiast Mark Wade.


• '' Donna Kooler's Encyclopedia Of Crochet ''


• ''''


• '' Encyclopedia Of Counseling ''


• , part of the Marxist Internet Archive .


• '' Encyclopedia Of Nutritional Supplements ''


• ''


• '' McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia Of Science And Technology '': also comes in a one-volume edition.


• ''


• '' The Encyclopedia Of Window Fashions ''


• '' Encyclopedia Of World Problems And Human Potential '' published since 1972 by the Union Of International Associations (UIA). Previously published in three book volumes and on CD-ROM ; now published and developed online here .


• '' Larousse Encyclopedia Of Mythology ''


• '' Larousse Gastronomique '' Encyclopedia of food and cooking.


• '' A Military Encyclopedia ''


• ''. The first goal is to create a Database similar to CDDB .


• Nazarian`s Gun`s Recognition Guide


• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (ongoing since 1995)


• '' The Woman's Encyclopedia Of Myths And Secrets ''


• Dutch author Battus wrote a parody encyclopedia, titled The Encyclopedia.

''See also:'' List Of Digital Library Projects