that he personally had an IQ of 141 and was currently reading the Mushr to Ozon volume of the encyclopedia.

According to the Suda, a 10th century encyclopedia, Alexis was the paternal uncle of the dramatist Menander and wrote 245 comedies, of which only fragments now survive, including some 130 preserved titles.

The 4-volume work was an imaginary travel journal, one of the first historical novels, which Klemperer called " the encyclopedia of the new cult of the antique " in the late 18th century.

Known as " Big Mac ", the encyclopedia became the standard baseball reference until 1988, when Total Baseball was released by Warner Books using more sophisticated technology.

Also from Greece, Pedanius Dioscorides, in the middle of the first century, wrote De Materia Medica, a five-volume encyclopedia about herbal medicine that was widely read for more than 1, 500 years.

During the XII and XIII centuries many encyclopedic works have been written. Among them De proprietatibus rerum by Bartholomeus Anglicus ' ( 1240 ) was the most widely read and quoted encyclopedia in the High Middle Ages while Vincent of Beauvais's Speculum Majus ( 1260 ) was the most ambitious encyclopedia in the late-medieval period at over 3 million words.

Notable works include Abu Bakr al-Razi's encyclopedia of science, the Mutazilite Al-Kindi's prolific output of 270 books, and Ibn Sina's medical encyclopedia, which was a standard reference work for centuries.

The Margarita Philosophica by Gregor Reisch, printed in 1503, was a complete encyclopedia explaining the seven liberal arts.

It was a small encyclopedia for children, containing fables, proverbs, ancient history, basic arithmetics, zoology and linguistics.

The first large encyclopedia in Russian, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary ( 86 volumes, 1890 – 1906 ), was a direct cooperation with the German Brockhaus.

The first encyclopedia written originally in Swedish was Svenskt konversationslexikon ( 4 volumes, 1845 – 1851 ) by Per Gustaf Berg.

The first major Danish encyclopedia was Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon ( 19 volumes, 1893 – 1911 ).

In the Nynorsk variant of the language, Norsk Allkunnebok ( 10 volumes, 1948 – 1966 ) was the only encyclopedia until the arrival of Wikipedia.

The first major Finnish encyclopedia was Tietosanakirja ( 11 volumes, 1909 – 1922 ).

Inspired by the minority language example of Norsk Allkunnebok, a Swedish-language encyclopedia of Finland was initiated in 1969 and eventually published as Uppslagsverket Finland ( 3 volumes, 1982 – 1985 ; 2nd edition in 5 volumes, 2003 – 2007 ).

First Turkish encyclopedia was Kamus-ül-Ulûm ve ’ l-Maarif written by Ali Suvai in 1870 after that Ahmet Rifat Efendi's 7 volumes work " Lûgaat-i Tarihiye ve Coğrafiye " ( Dictionary of History and Geography ) published in Istanbul at 1881.

Encyclopedias are essentially derivative from what has gone before, and particularly in the 19th century, copyright infringement was common among encyclopedia editors.

It was not until Nupedia and later Wikipedia that a stable free encyclopedia project was able to be established on the Internet.

Frederik, who was impressed with this walking encyclopedia made him and his brother Bonomo Prussian counts in 1740.

Until that time, Pliny's work Historia Naturalis was the main source of information on metals and mining techniques, and Agricola made numerous references to the Roman encyclopedia.

After 90 years of effort, the University of Chicago has published an Assyrian Dictionary, whose form is more encyclopedia in style than dictionary.

He wrote a favorable encyclopedia article on hypnotism, translated one of Bernheim's works into German, and published an influential series of case studies with his colleague Joseph Breuer entitled Studies on Hysteria ( 1895 ).

In 1677, Domenico and Carlo Magri gave the etymologies for various Maltese words in their book Hierolexicon, a Latin version of the encyclopedia Notitia de vocaboli ecclesiastici first published in 1644.

Casting bronze ding-tripods, from the Chinese Tiangong Kaiwu encyclopedia of Song Yingxing, published in 1637.

* Columbia Encyclopedia, one-volume encyclopedia published by Columbia University Press

* Natural History ( Pliny ), an encyclopedia published by Pliny the Elder

In 1998, Wilson published an encyclopedia of conspiracy theories called Everything is Under Control, which explains the origins of many of the theories mentioned in Illuminatus !.

The Sancai Tuhui, a Chinese encyclopedia published in 1609, features the next known picture of a fishing reel and vividly shows the windlass pulley of the device.

In 2005, the national biographical encyclopedia of Norway ( Norsk biografisk leksikon ) published the biography of Johan Vaaler, stating he was the inventor of the paper clip.

Von Wilpert published several editions of an encyclopedia of literary descriptions Sachwörterbuch der Literatur.

Tony Attwood's Blake's 7: The Programme Guide, published by Target in 1982, is a factual overview of the series with a detailed episode guide, an encyclopedia, and interviews with the cast and writers.

Codex Seraphinianus, originally published in 1981, is an illustrated encyclopedia of an imaginary world, created by the Italian artist, architect and industrial designer Luigi Serafini during thirty months, from 1976 to 1978.

The Natural History ( Latin: Naturalis Historiæ ) is an encyclopedia published circa AD 77 – 79 by Pliny the Elder.

Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers () was a general encyclopedia published in France between 1751 and 1772, with later supplements, revised editions, and translations.

For example, Johann Friedrich Gleditsch had published a household lexicon in 1704, and with its third edition of 1708 this had become a form of encyclopedia.

Zedler seems to have also given up his own bookstore, because an advertisement for the Easter Fair of 1739, published in the New Learned Papers, said that the two most recent encyclopedia volumes were available from " Wolf's vault, Auerbach court ".

A CD-ROM version of the encyclopedia was published in 1995.

In antiquity, it covered more-or-less anything which is connected with nature or which uses materials drawn from nature ; see for example the contents of Pliny's encyclopedia of this title, published circa 77 to 79 AD.

First published in 1935, and continuing its important relationship with Columbia University, the encyclopedia underwent major revisions in 1950 and 1963 ; the current edition is the sixth, printed in 2000.

The Probert Encyclopaedia is an online encyclopedia containing over 110, 000 entries organized topically, written and published by Matthew Probert under the name Probert Publishing.

The World Book Encyclopedia is an encyclopedia published in the United States.

Since November 2007, both Windows and Mac electronic editions of World Book encyclopedia are developed and published by Software MacKiev.

A Chinese Paddle steamer | paddle-wheel driven ship from a Qing Dynasty encyclopedia published in 1726