Specialized dictionaries and encyclopedias, 1650-1800

Jeff Loveland is a Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Utah Tech University. Much of his research concerns the history of encyclopedias, especially eighteenth-century European encyclopedias. His publications include The Early Britannica (1768-1803) (2009, co-edited with Frank A. Kafker) and The European Encyclopedia, from 1650 to the Twenty-First Century (2019). Stéphane Schmitt is a research director at the Archives Henri Poincaré (French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) in Nancy, France. He works on the history of the life sciences, especially in the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries. He has published many books and papers on the history of anatomy, embryology, and zoology, and is the main editor of Buffon’s Œuvres completes (2007-, 17 volumes published to date).

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Augustin Calmet’s Dictionnaire historique, critique, chronologique, géographique et littéral de la Bible (1719) Kathleen Hardesty Doig


Étienne Chauvin’s Lexicon rationale (1692) and Lexicon philosophicum (1713) Giuliano Gasparri


A medicinal dictionary (1742-45) by Robert James: an Enlightenment reference work Alexander Wright and R. W. McConchie


John Barrow’s Dictionarium polygraphicum (1735) Craig Hanson


Noël Chomel’s Dictionnaire oeconomique (1708) Clorinda Donato


The Dictionnaire raisonné universel d’histoire naturelle (1764) Stéphane Schmitt


The Reales Staats- und Zeitungs-Lexicon (1704) Jeff Loveland


The Curieuses Natur- Kunst- Gewerck- und Handlungs-Lexicon (1712) Ines Prodöhl


The Dictionnaire universel de commerce (1723-30) Jeff Loveland


Nicolas Desroche’s Dictionaire des termes propres de marine (1687): a linguistic tool for seafarers? Élisabeth Ridel-Granger and Michel Daeffler


Sven Rinman’s Bergwerks Lexicon (1788-89) and the emergence of mining encyclopedias in preindustrial Europe Linn Holmberg


Frank Kafker and the social history of eighteenth-century encyclopedism Gregory S. Brown and Melanie Conroy


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