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Cyclopedia and Encyclopédie

 

The difficulty lay in the form and economy of it, so to dispose such a multitude of materials as not to make a confused heap of incoherent parts but one consistent whole... Former lexicographers have scarce attempted anything like structure in their works, nor seem to have been aware that a dictionary was, in some measure, capable of the advantages of a continued discourse.

Ephraim Chambers
1680 - 1740