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The Coptic Encyclopedia (1993) The Jewish Encyclopedia (1901–1906) Encyclopaedia Judaica; Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) Schaff–Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge (1914; public domain since 2004) St. Thomas Christian Encyclopaedia of India (1973,82,2010) Encyclopedia of Mormonism (1992) Orthodox Encyclopedia (Serbe) Encyclopaedia of Islam
As of 2007, old encyclopedias whose copyright has expired, such as the 1911 edition of Britannica, are also the only free content English encyclopedias released in print form. However, works such as the Great Soviet Encyclopedia , which were created in the public domain, [ citation needed ] exist as free content encyclopedias in other languages.
The 1948 edition of the American Peoples Encyclopedia was a 20-volume work, with more 10,000,000 words, written by 3,200 contributors, including 9 Nobel Prize winners. It covered 50,000 topics and included 15,000 illustrations, 500 in color, and a 160-page atlas in full color.
Advertisement for Encyclopædia Britannica, 1913. The Encyclopædia Britannica has been published continuously since 1768, appearing in fifteen official editions. Several editions have been amended with multi-volume "supplements" (third, fifth/sixth), consisted of previous editions with added supplements (10th, and 12th/13th) or gone drastic re-organizations (15th).
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In 2020, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. released the Britannica All New Children's Encyclopedia: What We Know and What We Don't, an encyclopaedia aimed primarily at younger readers, covering major topics. The encyclopedia was widely praised for bringing back the print format. It was Britannica's first encyclopaedia for children since 1984.
Before publishing an encyclopedia, Chambers produced a smaller publication, Chambers's Information for the People. This began as a serial publication in 1835. Like the Penny Cyclopaedia, and others of the time it was meant to be a cheap reference work that was targeted at the middle and working classes. Hence, it focused only on subjects that ...
Yongle Encyclopedia (永樂大典; Yǒnglè Dàdiǎn) Two volumes (comprising chapters 2268–2269 and 7391–7392) of the manuscript copy of the Yongle Encyclopedia produced between 1562 and 1567 for the Jiajing Emperor. The original copy produced between 1403 and 1408 is now lost, and only about 400 of the 11,095 volumes of the 16th-century ...
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