Richard Yeo Encyclopaedic Visions.

Richard Yeo Encyclopaedic Visions.. Scientific Dictionaries and Enlightenment agriculture New York: Cambridge University Pres 2001 Pp xxi, 336 $5995 ISBN 0-521-65191-3

Time was, not thus long ago, when a visitor in practically any middle-class household was unfailing to come upon an impressively large locate of encyclopedias squatting in succession a shelf somewhere. Whether portray by actioned by the comfortably plebeian World work Encyclopedia, the slightly more pretentious Encyclopedia Britannica or others of this genre possession of a fix of encyclopedias made a statement about the owner's wish

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