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Human knowledge is the most valuable achievement of our civilization. From century to century, information was accumulated and transmitted on the most convenient media. Giant libraries, archives, databases, all this is a storehouse of information from various fields of science. Separate knowledge arrays generalized by the topic form encyclopedias. Our article will be about them.
We are going to talk about what an encyclopedia is, what it can be and what it can tell us. If this topic is interesting, then we invite you to continue with us.
Encyclopedia: concept
Let's start with the concept of what an encyclopedia is. This is a book or electronic publication, scientific or popular science, containing information about a particular direction of scientific research of practical activity. The term comes from the merger of two Greek words: enkyklios and paideia, which in translation is interpreted as "learning in the circle of knowledge".
Principles of building encyclopedias
Information in encyclopedias is placed in a certain way. Based on this principle,distinguish between types of publications.
Thus, the basic principles of placing encyclopedic articles are alphabetical, thematic, alphabetical-thematic. As for ease of use, for a reader who is not prepared in a particular issue, it will be more relevant to use encyclopedias with alphabetical placement of articles. For specific scientific encyclopedias, the thematic-alphabetical order of information placement is more convenient.
The most interesting types of encyclopedias are thematic ones. Depending on the aspects covered in them, publications are:
- universal - collection of information about all the realities of life, relating mainly to the country that published the encyclopedia;
- regional - contain facts about any region of the country, the mainland or our planet in general;
- industry - provide information exclusively related to a particular branch of human activity;
- narrow-industry (problem) - highlight a specific issue of one of the branches of human activity that constitutes a separate problem (scientific or practical);
- biographical, dedicated to the life and work of famous luminaries of science, art, politics and other social spheres;
- other encyclopedias, mainly those that present an array of information for a specific readership (a vivid example is children's encyclopedias that provide a variety of data that are of interest to children of a certain age).
The intermediate result of our research will be the knowledge of what an encyclopedia is, and the mainkinds of the latest.
Distinguish: encyclopedias and reference books-encyclopedias, dictionaries-encyclopedias
There is another criterion by which it is worth distinguishing between these book editions. It concerns the method of presenting information. In accordance with it, encyclopedic literature is divided into encyclopedias, encyclopedia reference books and encyclopedia dictionaries.
Dictionaries-encyclopedias differ in that information is presented in them concisely, often in only one interpretation of the term.
Encyclopedias provide more information: in addition to the interpretation of a word or phenomenon, we can learn from them about its history, connections with other concepts. It is the versatility and vastness of the presentation that makes them the most interesting type to read. Such a publication is the well-known universal "Great Soviet Encyclopedia".
Another type that we haven't considered is the directory. This type of encyclopedia contains material arranged in thematic groups for easy reference.
Results
Thus, we have considered what an encyclopedia is. This is an array of information of a particular industry or general information arranged according to a certain principle. There are many types of encyclopedias, classified according to different criteria.
Encyclopedias contain a huge amount of useful and interesting knowledge. We need to touch the developments of human development more often through these publications!
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