The controversial origins of the Encyclopedia - Addison Anderson

The controversial origins of the Encyclopedia - Addison Anderson
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The controversial origins of the Encyclopedia - Addison Anderson

 

TED-Ed Lesson: The first encyclopedia contained 70,000 entries and over 20,000,000 words. It was broken into 35 volumes written over the course of 3 decades. It was also banned by Louis XV and Pope Clement XIII. But why was this encyclopedia so controversial, and who wrote it in the first place?…

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