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contribution to “Grand Dictionnaire historique”
- In encyclopaedia: The development of the modern encyclopaedia (17th–18th centuries)
  The turning point came with Louis Moréri’s alphabetically arranged Grand Dictionnaire historique (1674), which was especially strong in geographical and biographical material. Its success was immediate; six editions were issued by 1691, each incorporating much new contemporary information. English editions followed in 1694, 1701, and (a supplement) 1705. Other encyclopaedias…
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encyclopaedia supplements
- In encyclopaedia: Revision and updating
  Louis Moréri set an example in his rapid incorporation of new information in each succeeding issue of his widely used Grand Dictionnaire historique (1674; “The Great Historical Dictionary”). When the German publisher Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus first issued his great encyclopaedia, he was forced by an…
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encyclopaedias for special interests
- In encyclopaedia: Special interests
  Louis Moréri made no secret of his intention to produce an encyclopaedia that would defend the teaching and policies of the Roman Catholic Church. Antoine Furetière and Pierre Bayle, on the other hand, represented the philosophers, and their anticlerical bias was more in tune with…
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