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Academy of Korean Studies
Established by the South Korean government in 1978, the academy publishes meticulously researched literary, linguistic, archival, and historical texts, including facsimiles of primary resources. ...
Agriculture and Animal Husbandry
From 1740 to 1850, the organization and efficiency of much of western European agriculture were transformed. Sometimes called an agricultural revolution, this process was prior to or concomitant with ...
Aldo Garzanti
(1883–1941) Industrialist and chemist.In 1938 he bought the struggling Milan publisher Treves and gave his own name to the new enterprise. After the war, the firm—run from 1952 by ...
Anglo-Norman
Designating the French language as spoken and written in the British Isles from the Norman Conquest until the 14th cent. It was a western type of French which, transplanted to Britain, developed ...
art book
Art and the book have a long common history, from books of hours to modern artists’ books. A new type of book, however, appeared once the history of art, in ...
Aschehoug
Norwegian publishing house, founded 1872 in Oslo. With William Nygaard as director from 1888, it expanded rapidly. Nygaard strongly encouraged Norwegian authors to stop publishing in Denmark; through ...
astronomy
Until 1582, the need for Calendar reform was a significant spur to astronomy. Astronomers' reactions to the publication of the Copernican theory (1543) were at first rather friendly (see Rheticus ...
Athanasius Kircher
(1602–80) German Jesuit polymath.In Ars Magna Sciendi (1669) he sought to unite all disciplines in a single system. His publications covered oriental studies, medicine, geology, and linguistics. The ...
Bartholomaeus Anglicus
(fl. 1230–50),also known as Bartholomew de Glanville, a Minorite friar, and author of De Propietatibus rerum, an encyclopaedia of the Middle Ages first printed c.1470.
Bertelsmann Club
Part of the Bertelsmann group, it is the largest German book club, with more than 6 million members. The Club offers popular fiction, non-fiction books, and encyclopaedias, as well as ...
bestiary
A description of animal life in verse or prose, in which the characteristics of real and fabulous beasts (like the phoenix or the unicorn) are given edifying religious meanings. This kind of allegory ...
Bibliothèque de la Pléiade
Collection of French and world literature, together with encyclopedic volumes, published by Gallimard since 1931. These handsome and increasingly scholarly editions consecrate an author's status as a ...
biographical dictionary
Begin with Men of the Time in Australia, Victorian Series, published in Melbourne in 1878 by McCarron, Bird & Co. J. Henniker Heaton, English journalist and postal reformer, published Australian ...
Brunetto Latini
(c. 1220–c. 1294).Florentine scholar and statesman, author of Li Livres dou tresor, an important early French prose encyclopaedia in three books: the first treats philosophical, doctrinal, ...
Carl Christopher Gjörwell
(1731–1811), Swedish librarian, publicist, and publisher. The illegitimate son of a nobleman, Christoffer Ehrensparre, Gjörwell received a solid academic education at his father's expense. By the ...
Charles Scribner's Sons
This venerable American imprint traces its roots to a publishing partnership established in 1846 between the original Charles Scribner (b. 1821) and Isaac D. Baker. When Baker died in 1850 ...
Charles-Joseph Panckoucke
(1736–98) French publisher and bookseller.Beginning his career in Lille, where his father was a printer and publisher, he moved to Paris in 1762, soon becoming the wealthiest and most ...
chemistry
The study of the elements and the compounds they form. Chemistry is mainly concerned with effects that depend on the outer electrons in atoms. See biochemistry; geochemistry; inorganic chemistry; ...
Children's Books
Andrea Immel1 Introduction2 Origins and development3 Children’s texts as printed books4 The MS book5 Defining the children’s book1 Introduction2 Origins and development3 Children’s texts as printed ...
Demetrius Chalcondyles
(1423–1511),Greek scholar in Italy. Chalcondyles was an Athenian who lived in the circle of Bessarion in Rome and in 1464 became the first holder of the professorship of Greek ...
