Sentence examples for In encyclopaedia from inspiring English sources

Almost every subsequent move in encyclopaedia making is thus directly traceable to Chambers's pioneer work.

In 2005, the journal Nature published a survey comparing 42 entries on scientific topics in Wikipedia with their counterparts in Encyclopaedia Britannica, and concluded that Wikipedia had four errors for every three of Britannica's.

Cristofori's entry in Encyclopaedia Britannica notes that little is known of his life and that his invention was not well known in his lifetime, even if it has since become ubiquitous.

See too various creation entries in Encyclopaedia of Islam (see above in main text for references).

For a helpful overview of exegesis in Islam, see "Ta'wīl" in Encyclopaedia of Islam.

Historian Gillian Thomas investigated the role of women in Encyclopaedia Britannica, finding that as contributors, women were relegated to matters of 'social and purely feminine affairs' and as subjects, women were often little more than addenda to male biographies (e.g., Marie Curie as the wife of Pierre Curie) [11].

The use of illustrations in encyclopaedias goes back almost certainly to St. Isidore's time.

This created a new dimension in encyclopaedias, for it introduced a personal element on a scale previously seen only in the columns of the Encyclopédie.

Even more noticeable than variations in the number of volumes in encyclopaedias has been an even greater variation in the average lengths of articles within those volumes.

As the boundaries of knowledge contained in encyclopaedias expanded, there were at least some attempts to produce specialized works of this kind.

Larousse, in full Librairie Larousse, Parisian publishing house specializing in encyclopaedias and dictionaries, founded in 1852 by Augustin Boyer and Pierre Larousse, editor of the Grand Dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle (15 vol., 1866 76; 2 supplements, 1878 and 1890).