On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Michael Peel<[email protected]> wrote:
<snip> > * The article describes Britannica as "the oldest English language > encyclopedia". In fact, it is the oldest continuously published > English language encyclopedia. > > Interesting. What was the oldest English language encyclopaedia, then? According to the encyclopedia article, this one in 1728: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclopaedia,_or_Universal_Dictionary_of_Arts_and_Sciences "The Cyclopaedia was one of the first general encyclopedias to be produced in English." Another candidate is this one from 1704: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexicon_Technicum Carcharoth _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
