Retro Louisville: First Braille encyclopedia completed inside APH

The American Printing House for the Blind in Louisville began in 1959 a yearslong effort to compile the first encyclopedia ...
Al Bawaba News

Meet the Author of the First Medical Encyclopedia

Generations have used encyclopedias to learn about various topics. The voluminous books carry information on subjects: they range from world leaders, important events, to ideas encapsulated in small ...
Chicago Tribune

Long before Google, there was the encyclopedia

In an age before Google, parents pinned hopes for their children’s future onto promises made on their doorsteps by encyclopedia salesmen. Denis Boyles, the author of a history of the Encyclopaedia ...
The Independent

Knowledge through the pages: The evolution of encyclopedias

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter When did Cymburgis of ...
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Belarus' National Library to celebrate first national encyclopedia

MINSK, 16 December (BelTA) – The exhibition “Encyclopedia. National Project” marking the 50th anniversary of the first Belarusian universal encyclopedia will open at the Book Museum of Belarus' ...
New Republic

What We’ve Lost With the Demise of Print Encyclopedias

Yet with the disappearance of paper encyclopedias, a part of the Western intellectual tradition is disappearing as well. I am not speaking of the idea of impartial, objective, and meticulously ...