Nowe Ateny

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Nowe Ateny is the abbreviated title of the first encyclopedia written in Polish by the eighteenth century Polish priest Benedykt Joachim Chmielowski. The first edition was published in 1745-1746; the second edition was published in 1754-1764.

To write the encyclopedia Chmielowski compiled data accessible to him from only a few hunderd books he was able to collect from various sources. He also added personal annotations to the data such as Dragons existed for sure, I myself holded, visiting Radziwills' castle, rib of a dragon bigger than regular sabre

Almost every sentence in the book is inline referenced, frequently in Latin, a lingua franca in Poland among the educated classes as in most of Central and Western Europe of the eighteenth century.

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