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The word encyclopedia began as a Greek word and means
"instruction in the whole circle." It was the first used in __1__
English by sir Thomas Eloyt in 1538. Encyclopedias today
are usually arranged in alphabetical order, but in early times
they were arranged in any way the author liked. One writer
in the Middle Ages began with a discussion of God and
angels and end with descriptions of scents and colors and __2__
a list of 36 different kinds of eggs. The first
alphabetically arranged encyclopedia was published in 1704
by an English clergyman named after John Harris. __3__
The oldest encyclopedia in reality was written during the __4__
first century A.D. by Plainy, a Roman. Its 37 volumes
list over 20 thousand items. It is valued highly for hundreds __5__
of years. Up to 1536 43 editions had been published.
The largest encyclopedia, the third Chinese encyclopedia
containing over 5020 volumes and was compiled during the __6__
eighteenth century. Between 1751 and 1765 the French
Encyclopedia appeared. This collecton was usual because __7__
contemporary famous men, imcluded Voltarie, Rousseau, and __8__
Diderot, wrote aticles for it.
The Encyclopedia Britannica is probably the best known
work for English-speaking people. It first appeared in Scotland __9__
in 1771. In 1961 the world Book Company published a braille
edition of its encyclopedia for blind readers. __10__
