نبذة مختصرة : The first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica (1768-1771; hereafter EB) and Rees’s Cyclopaedia, or an universal dictionary of arts and sciences (1778-1788; hereafter RCy) are the two general reference works under scrutiny here. They are the most relevant outcomes of this kind in the second half of the century. Rees still answers to a taxonomic approach, derived from Chambers, and is aimed at connecting the different branches of knowledge; the EB, instead, is not interested in this but in .
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