encyclopedist

An encyclopaedist is a person who helps to summarize the knowledge of their time in the form of an encyclopaedia. Further, the term also includes the editor of an encyclopaedia.

A timely group of such persons were the contributors to the French Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, the arts et des métiers (1751-1780), summarized as an encyclopaedist (Encyclopédie). In Latin studies, the Roman authors Marcus Porcius Cato the Elder, Marcus Terentius Varro, Aulus Cornelius Celsus and Gaius Plinius Secundus are summarized as encyclopaedists Weblinks Edit sourcetext Wiktionary: Encyclopedia, the encyclopedia

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