A Brief History of Encyclopedias: From Pliny to Wikipedia by Andrew Brown

A Brief History of Encyclopedias: From Pliny to Wikipedia

Andrew Brown

119 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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Encyclopedias have traditionally claimed to provide absolute knowledge, yet with information now among the world's most valuable commodities, this volume provides a timely consideration of how accurate that claim can ever be.

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