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Topic: The Nuttall Encyclopaedia


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  Encyclopedia Resource Page - encyclopaedia
The term encyclopaedia was coined by fifteenth century humanists who misread copies of their texts of Pliny and Quintilian, and combined the free online encylopedia two Greek words enkuklios paideia into one word.
Browne structured his encyclopaedia upon the time-honoured schemata of the Renaissance, the so-called 'scale of creation' which ascends a hierarchical ladder via the mineral, vegetable, animal, human, planetary and cosmological worlds.
Encyclopaedias were published in Scotland, as a result of the Scottish Enlightenment, for education there was of a higher standard than in the rest of the United Kingdom.
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 The Nuttall Encyclopaedia eBook
A little knowledge is not dangerous to those who recognise it to be little, and it may be sufficient to enable those who possess it to understand and enjoy intelligently what would otherwise only weigh as a burdensome reflection upon their ignorance.
What is wanted in a popular Encyclopaedia is succinct information—­the more succinct the better, so long as it gives what is required by the inquiry, leaving it to the authorities in each subject to supply the information desired by those intent on pursuing it further.
The value of an Encyclopaedia of such small scope must depend, therefore, upon the careful selection of its materials, and in this respect it is hoped the one now offered to the public will be found adequate to any reasonable demands made upon it.
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 The Nuttall Encyclopaedia by James Wood
An Encyclopaedia is now recognised to be as indispensable a book of reference as a dictionary; for while the latter explains and defines the vehicle of _thought_, the former seeks to define the subject-matter.
No man can now peruse even a daily newspaper without being brought face to face with details about questions of the deepest interest to _him_; and he is often unable to grasp the meaning of what he reads for want of additional knowledge or explanation.
What is wanted in a popular Encyclopaedia is succinct information--the more succinct the better, so long as it gives what is required by the inquiry, leaving it to the authorities in each subject to supply the information desired by those intent on pursuing it further.
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 Oxford: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes
There is an entry in the Nuttall Encyclopædia for Charles Knight and another for William Shakespeare.
There is an entry in the Nuttall Encyclopædia for Edward Fitzgerald and another for Dante.
There is an entry in the Nuttall Encyclopædia for Charles Dante Gabriel Rossetti and another for Dante Alighieri.
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 Yokuba
Yokuba is listed in the Nuttall Encyclopaedia as the largest town in Sokoto, in the Lower Soudan, with a large trade in cotton, tobacco, and indigo plant.
In the 19th century both Sokoto and Soudan referred to larger geographic areas than they do today, so it uncertain what, if any, modern town Nuttall was referring to.
Oddly, the eleventh edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, published just four years after the Nuttall Encyclopedia (and shortly after the federation of Nigeria), makes no mention of the town and does not show it on its map of the new nation, despite a considerable number of towns being shown in the Sokoto region.
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Chitin Chitin (Nuttall Encyclopædia), netherbian chitin, brown chitin leggings..
Chitin is the second most abundant biopolymer found in nature after cellulose.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the.
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