Talk:Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences

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Move to Cyclopaedia edit

Latest comment: 12 years ago6 comments6 people in discussion

Per naming guidelines, a shorter name is prefferable. Comments?--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 22:36, 5 July 2006 (UTC)Reply

This name is messed up. ---J.S (T/C/WRE) 07:24, 8 January 2007 (UTC)Reply

Cyclopaedia redirects to this page; this page is the actual name of the work and refers definitively to this version of Chambers, whereas "Cyclopaedia" is a little more generic. The current title is how it's known in most academic writing. -- phoebe 01:26, 13 January 2007 (UTC)Reply

But what's correct? There are three different versions here - the article title is "Cyclopaedia, or Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences", the lead line says "Cyclopaedia, or, A Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences" and the quote states "Cyclopaedia, or, An universal dictionary of arts and sciences". Is it "A", "An" or no article? Please could someone who knows make this consistent? 86.152.203.212 18:36, 19 April 2007 (UTC)Reply

I've changed the first paragraph to use 'An' since that's what it says on the image of the front cover. Hopefully nobody will remove the n thinking it to be a mistake. --Angelastic 21:10, 24 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

Presumably the word "universal" was pronounced with the older Latin-style "u" (not "yu") when the work was published. Dbfirs 07:48, 5 May 2011 (UTC)Reply

&c in text edit

Anyone know what the &c: and &c; are meant to be in the introduction text?

See the history of &. It use to mean "et" (latin for "and"), and &c is etc. — BRIAN0918 • 2007-05-27 15:16Z

Spelling edit

Latest comment: 12 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Why does the article not use the 'æ' ligature in the spelling of 'Cyclopædia'? It is printed this on this cover so should it not be spelt this way here? —PolishName 18:15, 7 January 2008 (UTC)Reply

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Pliny_the_Elder/home.html

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/holland/index.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by Prachursharma (talk • contribs) 06:02, 3 April 2012 (UTC)Reply

Possibly unnecessary/ambiguous sentence edit

Is the second sentence in this paragraph necessary?:

Among the precursors of Chambers's Cyclopaedia was John Harris's Lexicon Technicum, of 1704 (later editions from 1708 through 1744). By its title and content, it was "An Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: Explaining not only the Terms of Art, but the Arts Themselves." While Harris's work is often classified as a technical dictionary, it also took material from Newton and Halley among others.

The alternate name is contained in the entry for Lexicon Technicum. It's also unclear what's meant by "by its title and content, it was ...".

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