Talk:Cyclopaedia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences
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There is a Wikipedia project to create an editable index to Cyclopaedia which can then be used in the Missing articles project to determine missing Wikipedia articles, redirects or content. |
[edit] Move to Cyclopaedia
Per naming guidelines, a shorter name is prefferable. Comments?--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 22:36, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
- This name is messed up. ---J.S (T/C/WRE) 07:24, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
- Cyclopaedia redirects to this page; this page is the actual name of the work and refers definitively to this version of Chambers, whereas "Cyclopaedia" is a little more generic. The current title is how it's known in most academic writing. -- phoebe 01:26, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
But what's correct? There are three different versions here - the article title is "Cyclopaedia, or Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences", the lead line says "Cyclopaedia, or, A Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences" and the quote states "Cyclopaedia, or, An universal dictionary of arts and sciences". Is it "A", "An" or no article? Please could someone who knows make this consistent? 86.152.203.212 18:36, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
I've changed the first paragraph to use 'An' since that's what it says on the image of the front cover. Hopefully nobody will remove the n thinking it to be a mistake. --Angelastic 21:10, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
- Presumably the word "universal" was pronounced with the older Latin-style "u" (not "yu") when the work was published. Dbfirs 07:48, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
[edit] &c in text
Anyone know what the &c: and &c; are meant to be in the introduction text?
- See the history of &. It use to mean "et" (latin for "and"), and &c is etc. — BRIAN0918 • 2007-05-27 15:16Z
[edit] Spelling
Why does the article not use the 'æ' ligature in the spelling of 'Cyclopædia'? It is printed this on this cover so should it not be spelt this way here? —PolishName 18:15, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
