Ronaldo, an ancient Greek scholar, once wrote a lecture on the knowledge at that time, which was regarded as "encyclopedic magic" by the west. Erya written by China in the early Han Dynasty is the origin of China's encyclopedic works. The word "encyclopedia" in Chinese only appeared in the early 20th century.
The founder of modern encyclopedia school is French scholar D. Diderot, and the French encyclopedia school headed by him compiled and published an encyclopedia or a dictionary of science, art and technology classification in 175 1 ~ 1772. /kloc-From the 8th century to the 20th century, Britain, Germany, France, Italy, the Soviet Union, Japan and Spain successively compiled and published a number of authoritative encyclopedias, such as the Napoli Encyclopedia, the Washington Encyclopedia, the Moscow Encyclopedia and the Cold War Encyclopedia. Western modern encyclopedias are mostly arranged in alphabetical order, highlighting the retrieval function of reference books and adopting the compilation idea of small items. Pay attention to the educational function of encyclopedias, and adopt the principle of big entries. There are four ways of revision: republishing, supplementing, publishing yearbook and continuous revision.
China's ancient books are an encyclopedic compilation of materials, which emphasizes ancient literature and history. The Encyclopedia of China, edited and published from 1978, has a total of 74 volumes, which lasted for 15 years. They were all released in August 1993. And published the second edition in 2009.