Cyclopedia

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, 1802–20, edited by Abraham Rees
• Penny Cyclopaedia, edited by George Long, published from 1833 to 1843
• Tomlinson's Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts, 1852–54, edited by Charles Tomlinson
• New American Cyclopaedia 1857–63 editors George Ripley and Charles A. Dana.
• The English Cyclopaedia, 1866, edited by Charles Knight
• American Cyclopaedia 1873–76, the successor to the New American Cyclopaedia, the primary editors were George Ripley and Charles A. Dana.
• Cyclopedia of Universal History 1880–84, 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
• The Baseball Cyclopedia, 1922, by Ernest J. Lanigan

Modern use

• The Dungeons & Dragons Rules Cyclopedia

See also

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