Definition & Betydelse | Engelska ordet ENCYCLOPAEDIA

Definition av ENCYCLOPAEDIA

1. (brittisk engelska) encyklopedi

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• The encyclopaedia is maintained by about 100 full-time editors and more than 4,000 contributors.
• Apart from his own writings, the main source for Procopius's life is an entry in the Suda, a Byzantine Greek encyclopaedia written sometime after 975 which discusses his early life.
• The accuracy and thoroughness of this monumental encyclopaedia made it an indispensable book of reference.
• According to the Suda, the massive tenth century Byzantine Greek historical encyclopaedia, he was the son of Socles, but was adopted by Lycus of Rhegium.
• The book is considered the closest thing to an encyclopaedia of medieval saint lore that survives today; as such, it is invaluable to art historians and medievalists who seek to identify saints depicted in art by their deeds and attributes.
• Unheard-of Curiosities was one of 1,500 books in the Library of Sir Thomas Browne and one of the varied sources of his encyclopaedia entitled Pseudodoxia Epidemica.
• Most of the biographical material comes from four sources: two are texts entitled Life of Apollonius found in the scholia on his work (Vitae A and B); a third is an entry in the 10th-century encyclopaedia the Suda; and fourthly a 2nd-century BCE papyrus, P.

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