Richard R Yeo
Biographic Data
| ID | 2789154 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard R Yeo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard R |
| FAMILY NAME | Yeo |
| SIGNATURE | YEO R R |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Lost Encyclopedias: Before and After the Enlightenment
Lost Encyclopedias:Before and After the Enlightenment Richard Yeo (bio) As ways of collecting, ordering, and preserving knowledge, both libraries and encyclopedias are complex concepts with nuanced histories. The two categories have classical roots, and both have affinities with another ancient notion, the "Musaeum." All three are places of repository or display.1 But encyclopedias, roughly as we know them today, are recent occupants on library s…
A Solution to the Multitude of Books: "Ephraim Chambers's Cyclopaedia (1728) as "the Best Book in the Universe
This article considers Ephraim Chambers's Cyclopaedia (2 Vols., 1728) as a work that responded to anxieties about information overload. Chambers drew on Renaissance ideas about summarizing and organizing knowledge-in particular, the humanist practice of keeping a commonplace book. By completing an alphabetical dictionary with due deference to categories, or Heads, he not only offered a convenient summary of knowledge but retained the notion of an…
Ephraim Chambers's Cyclopaedia (1728) and the Tradition of Commonplaces
Ephraim Chambers’s Cyclopædia (1728) and the Tradition of Commonplaces Richard Yeo In the fifth volume (1755) of the Encyclopédie in his entry on “En-cyclopædia,” Denis Diderot forecast a time in which the sheer number of books would require a division of intellectual labor. Some people, he said, will not do much rea ding but rather “devote themselves to investigation which will be new, or which they will believe to be new.” The majority, unable …
Scientific Method And The Rhetoric of Science In Britain, 1830–1917
The Politics and Rhetoric of Scientific Method: Historical Studies
The Principle of Plenitude and Natural Theology in Nineteenth-Century Britain
In his classic study, The Great Chain of Being , Arthur Lovejoy delineated a complex set of concepts and assumptions which referred to the perfection of God and the fullness of creation. In attempting to distil the basic or 'unit idea' which constituted this pattern of thought, he focused on the assumption that 'the universe is a plenum formarum in which the range of conceivable diversity of kinds of living things is exhaustively exemplified'. He…
The Politics and Rhetoric of Scientific Method: Historical Studies
Ephraim Chambers's Cyclopaedia (1728) and the Tradition of Commonplaces
Ephraim Chambers’s Cyclopædia (1728) and the Tradition of Commonplaces Richard Yeo In the fifth volume (1755) of the Encyclopédie in his entry on “En-cyclopædia,” Denis Diderot forecast a time in which the sheer number of books would require a division of intellectual labor. Some people, he said, will not do much rea ding but rather “devote themselves to investigation which will be new, or which they will believe to be new.” The majority, unable …
Lost Encyclopedias: Before and After the Enlightenment
Lost Encyclopedias:Before and After the Enlightenment Richard Yeo (bio) As ways of collecting, ordering, and preserving knowledge, both libraries and encyclopedias are complex concepts with nuanced histories. The two categories have classical roots, and both have affinities with another ancient notion, the "Musaeum." All three are places of repository or display.1 But encyclopedias, roughly as we know them today, are recent occupants on library s…
The Principle of Plenitude and Natural Theology in Nineteenth-Century Britain
In his classic study, The Great Chain of Being , Arthur Lovejoy delineated a complex set of concepts and assumptions which referred to the perfection of God and the fullness of creation. In attempting to distil the basic or 'unit idea' which constituted this pattern of thought, he focused on the assumption that 'the universe is a plenum formarum in which the range of conceivable diversity of kinds of living things is exhaustively exemplified'. He…
Scientific Method And The Rhetoric of Science In Britain, 1830–1917
The Politics and Rhetoric of Scientific Method: Historical Studies
The Principle of Plenitude and Natural Theology in Nineteenth-Century Britain
In his classic study, The Great Chain of Being , Arthur Lovejoy delineated a complex set of concepts and assumptions which referred to the perfection of God and the fullness of creation. In attempting to distil the basic or 'unit idea' which constituted this pattern of thought, he focused on the assumption that 'the universe is a plenum formarum in which the range of conceivable diversity of kinds of living things is exhaustively exemplified'. He…
Ephraim Chambers's Cyclopaedia (1728) and the Tradition of Commonplaces
Ephraim Chambers’s Cyclopædia (1728) and the Tradition of Commonplaces Richard Yeo In the fifth volume (1755) of the Encyclopédie in his entry on “En-cyclopædia,” Denis Diderot forecast a time in which the sheer number of books would require a division of intellectual labor. Some people, he said, will not do much rea ding but rather “devote themselves to investigation which will be new, or which they will believe to be new.” The majority, unable …
A Solution to the Multitude of Books: "Ephraim Chambers's Cyclopaedia (1728) as "the Best Book in the Universe
This article considers Ephraim Chambers's Cyclopaedia (2 Vols., 1728) as a work that responded to anxieties about information overload. Chambers drew on Renaissance ideas about summarizing and organizing knowledge-in particular, the humanist practice of keeping a commonplace book. By completing an alphabetical dictionary with due deference to categories, or Heads, he not only offered a convenient summary of knowledge but retained the notion of an…
Lost Encyclopedias: Before and After the Enlightenment
Lost Encyclopedias:Before and After the Enlightenment Richard Yeo (bio) As ways of collecting, ordering, and preserving knowledge, both libraries and encyclopedias are complex concepts with nuanced histories. The two categories have classical roots, and both have affinities with another ancient notion, the "Musaeum." All three are places of repository or display.1 But encyclopedias, roughly as we know them today, are recent occupants on library s…
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