Encyclopaedic Visions: Scientific Dictionaries and Enlightenment Culture

Introduction: the encyclopaedic tradition Part I: 1. Encyclopaedias in the Republic of Letters 2. Scientific dictionaries and 'compleat' knowledge 3. Containing knowledge Part II: 4. From commonplace books to encyclopaedias 5. 'The best book in the universe': Ephraim Chambers' Cyclopaedia 6. Communicating the arts and sciences 7. The Encyclopaedia Britannica and the Scottish Enlightenment Part III: 8. Copyright and public knowledge 9. Why dedicate an encyclopaedia to a king? 10. Editors and experts Conclusion.