Cyclopedia

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Cyclopedia, cyclopaedia or cyclopædia is an archaic term for encyclopedia.

The term may specifically refer to:

• Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, 1728, edited by Ephraim Chambers
• Rees's Cyclopædia, 1802-1820, edited by Abraham Rees
• Penny Cyclopaedia, edited by George Long, published from 1833 to 1843

• Tomlinson's Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts, 1852 - 1854, edited by Charles Tomlinson
• New American Cyclopaedia 1857–1863 editors George Ripley and Charles A. Dana.

• The English Cyclopaedia, 1866, edited by Charles Knight
• American Cyclopaedia 1873–1876, the successor to the New American Cyclopaedia, the primary editors were George Ripley and Charles A. Dana.

• Cyclopedia of Universal History 1880-1884, World History

• Johnson's New Universal Cyclopaedia, 1876, edited by Frederick Barnard and Arnold Guyot

• Johnson's Universal Cyclopaedia, 1893, edited by Charles Kendall Adams
• Pears Cyclopaedia, a one volume encyclopaedia originally published in the United Kingdom by Pears Soap as Pears Shilling Cyclopaedia in December 1897

• Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary

• Universal Cyclopaedia, 1900, edited by Charles Kendall Adams

• Universal Cyclopaedia and Atlas, 1902, edited by Rossiter Johnson

Modern use

• Cyclopedia (iPhone application), 2009, an iPhone application that overlays Wikipedia articles on a GPS-enabled Google street view

See also

• List of historical encyclopedias, for a number of less notable Cyclopaediae