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Saturday, September 4, 2021

Basic timeline of encyclopedias

This post is a basic timeline of encyclopedias. There are 30 encyclopedias listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

• Nine Books of Disciplines - Marus Terentius Varro (1st century BC)
• Naturalis Historia - Pliny the Elder (77 AD)
• Brihat Samhita - Varahamihira (6th century AD)
• Etymologiae - Isidore of Seville (600 AD)
• Bibliotheca - Photius (9th century AD)
• De Universo - Rabanus Maurus (830 AD)
• Suda - Byzantine scholars (10th century AD)
• Encyclopedia of the Brethren of Purity - Iraq (10th century AD)
• Four Great Books of Song - China (11th century AD)
• De Proprietatibus Rerum - Bartholomew of England (1240)
• Speculum Maius - Vincent of Beauvais (1260)
• Yongle Encyclopedia - China (1408)
• Nuremberg Chronicle - Hartmann Schedel (1493)
• Margartia Philosphica - Gregor Reisch (1503)
• Pseudodoxia Epidemica - Thomas Browne (1646)
• Lexicon Technicum - John Harris (1708)
• Cyclopaedia - Ephraim Chambers (1728)
• Encyclopedie - Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert (1751)
• Encyclopedia Britannica - Colin Macfarquhar and Andrew Bell (1768)
• Brockhaus Enzykopadie - Renatus Lobel and Christian Franke (1796)
• Edinburgh Encyclopedia - William Blackwood and David Brewster (1808)
• Penny Cyclopaedia - Charles Knight and Penny Magazine (1833)
• Chamber's Encyclopedia - William Chambers and Robert Chambers (1859)
• Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary - Brockhaus-Efron (1890)
• Wagnalls Standard Encyclopedia - Funk & Wagnalls (1912)
• World Book - Hanson-Roach-Fowler Company (1917)
• Harmsworth's Universal Encyclopedia - John Hammerton (1921)
• Microsoft Encarta - Microsoft (1993)
• Wikipedia - Wikimedia Foundation (2001)
• Baidu Baike - Baidu (2006)