“List of Rees's Cyclopædia articles”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

Serially published 1802-1820, the Cyclopædia was criticised for its idiosyncratic topic selection and alphabetisation standards. Hostile reviews in the Anti-Jacobin Review (1802-5) complained about its supposed antireligious aspects and radical standpoints attributed to its editor and contributors, and cited lack of article balance, confusing alphabetisation, and cross-references to then-unpublished volumes. The British Critic less stridently criticised lack of balance and confusion. The Quarterly Review^[2] commented in 1863, "Rees is the most extensive cyclopædia in English with many excellent articles it has generally been condemned as on the whole too diffuse and too commonplace." In 1948 Percy Scholes published his biography The Great Dr Burney, 2 vol., and devoted a chapter to Charles Burney's work for Rees, discussing in some detail the faults of the work, in particular, the way the serial production caused major problems when editors were faced with new knowledge that appeared after the volume containing the appropriate section had been issued.^[3] They addressed this partially with an appendix in the last volume.

The Rees Project, was instigated by Professor June Zimmerman Fullmer, who independently indexed the Cyclopædia. After tapping the invisible college^[4]^[5] of scholars who knew of Rees, she convened a summer 1986 meeting in London, following which she wrote a proposal^[6] to the American Foundation for the Humanities for funding to the project, setting out the object of producing a printed concordance to the contents of the Cyclopædia. This was intended to make Rees much more widely accessible to the modern reader. Funding was not forthcoming, and the matter lapsed.

The Cyclopædia lacks a classified index volume. In 1820, Philosophical Magazine analysed the work's contents by half-volume publication dates, as proper priority had not been given to serially published scientific discoveries.^[7] The following are notable topics covered by the Cyclopædia (containing over 15 columns).

Volume 1

Volume 2

Volume 3

Volume 4

Volume 5

Volume 6

Volume 7

Volume 8

Volume 9

Volume 10

Volume 11

Volume 12

Volume 13

Volume 14

Volume 15

Volume 16

Volume 17

Volume 18

Volume 19

Volume 20

Volume 21

Volume 22

Volume 23

Volume 24

Volume 25

Volume 26

Volume 27

Volume 28

Volume 29

Volume 30

Volume 31

Volume 32

Volume 33

Volume 34

Volume 35

Volume 36

Volume 37

Volume 38

Volume 39

See also

References

1. ^4C₈₇E781D6416E8CC₆₅F₂₅₂₆₃₅C₀₈₆.ashx'>"The subversive encyclopedia" by John Underwood in Science Museum Library & Archives Newsletter, Spring/Summer 2010.
2. ^{{cite journal|title=Encyclopædias|journal=Quarterly Review|year=1863|volume=113|page=367}}
3. ^¹²{{cite book|first=Percy A.|last=Scholes|title=The Great Dr Burney|year=1948|volume=2|pages=184–201|chapter=LVIII: Virtues and vagaries of a septuagenarian encyclopædist}}
4. ^{{cite journal|title=The Newcomen Bulletin [of the Newcomen Society of London]|date=December 1986|volume=136|pages=1–2}}
5. ^{{cite journal|title=Rees's Cyclopædia|journal=Archives of Natural History|year=1987|page=112|doi=10.3366/anh.1987.14.1.103|volume=14}}
6. ^{{cite book|last=Fullmer|first=June|title=Proposal for the creation of "The Readers' Guide to Rees's Cyclopædia"|year=1987|publisher=Self-published in limited-circulation typescript}}
7. ^¹{{cite magazine|author=Anonymous|title=Notices of New Books: The Cyclopædia ...|magazine=Philosophical Magazine|year=1820|volume=56|pages=218–24|series=1st series|number=269|doi=10.1080/14786442008652396}}
8. ^¹²³⁴⁵⁶⁷⁸{{cite DNB|wstitle=Wood, William (1745-1808)|volume=62|pages=379–80}}
9. ^¹²{{cite book|title=A Blake Bibliography|last=Bentley|first=G. E.|page=147|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B8s52CHSWKUC&pg=PT166|publisher=University of Minnesota Press|date=1999-01-01}}
10. ^¹²³⁴⁵{{cite web|title=George Glover|url=http://www.bruzelius.info/Nautica/Biography/Glover,_George.html|accessdate=4 April 2012}}
11. ^The article text cites "the author" as having invented the machine shown in the relevant illustration plates; said plates attribute it to John Duncan, who was a contributor to other articles.