Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 34

10

§ 5.

USE OF THE

WORD AFTER

CENTURY

17TH

[Div. I

under the name of Encyclopediae, but in general Encyclopedia acquires more and more the stamp of a Polyhistory. Finally the idea of a systematic collocation of the sciences

is

entirely

abandoned, and, in order to condense the ever-increasing quantity of material in a convenient form, refuge is taken in the lexicographical form. Somewhat in the spirit of Suidas the alphabet takes the place of the organic system, and the so-called

Alphabetical Real-Encyclopedia holds

its

triumphant entry.

came Jablonski with his Allgemeines Lexicon der Kilnste und Wissenchaften, Lpz. 1721, and Zedler with First

his G-rosses vollstdndiges Universallexicon aller Wissenchaften

und

Kiinste, 1732-1750,

68 volumes

in

followed by the

;

Worterhuch

oder allgemeines

Deutsche Encyclopaedic^

aller

und Wissenschaften in 23 volumes and, finally, the still unfinished work of Urseh and Griiber begun in 1818. The name of Encyclopedia came especially into use for this Kilnste

;

kind of Real-Lexicon through the Encyclopedic of Diderot and d'Alembert and the Encyclopaedia JBritannica, or a universal dictionary of arts

and

Till, finally, Pierer,

sciences.

Meyer, and Brockhaus undertook to let this Real-Lexicon run a continuous course, and for a small price to furnish a Conversationslexicon or Real- Ency clop aedie^ which keeps the people informed of the progress of scientific investigations. These general Real-Lexica have found favor also in the domain of the separate sciences, so that now there are such alphabetical Encyclopedias for almost all departments and sciences, partly for the learned and partly for the general public.

And

Encyclopedia

in this sense, the present is:

meaning

of the

word

A work which embraces briefly, and in alpha-

betical order, the

most important particulars thus far known

of each of the subjects that belong either to a single depart-

ment

of science or to the

distinction

sciences

is

between

the

domain

of science at large.

non-theological

here utterly lost from view.

and

The

theological

Already, in 1559,

had been abandoned by Paulus de Scala. Martinius and Alstedt had still respected it. But when the Polyhistory excluded all system from Encyclopedia, of this

antithesis

itself this antithesis also fell

away.

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