Enciclopedia universal ilustrada europeo-americana
Encyclopedia
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
encyclopedia
Encyclopedia
An encyclopedia is a type of reference work, a compendium holding a summary of information from either all branches of knowledge or a particular branch of knowledge....
comprising 72 volumes (numbered from 1 to 70, with parts 18 and 28 consisting of two volumes each) published from 1908 to 1930 plus a ten-volume appendix published 1930-1933. Between 1935 and 2003, 33 supplemental volumes were published plus an index, another A-Z appendix, and an atlas, for a total of 118 volumes. Each of the volumes vary in length.
It is currently the longest printed encyclopedia with 105,000 pages and 165,200,000 words .
Encyclopaedias: Their History Throughout The Ages regards the Espasa as one of the greatest encyclopedias, along with the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition
Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition
The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition is a 29-volume reference work, an edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. It was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time...
and the Enciclopedia Italiana
Enciclopedia Italiana
The Enciclopedia Italiana di scienze, lettere ed arti , is an Italian encyclopedia, generally regarded as the most authoritative of that language...
(p. 147). "This work is remarkable for its detail: maps and plans of even remote and obscure places; reproductions and descriptions of works of art entered under their titles; lengthy bibliographies, international in scope; full dictionary treatment of individual words with, in many cases, foreign equivalents; and usually affording full scope to lengthy treatment of important subjects." (201) The authors of the work, as an example of its scope, mentioned in the preface (vii) that all botanical genera known at the time were covered in the work.
Common words (not proper names) are translated into English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
, French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
, German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
, Esperanto
Esperanto
is the most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language. Its name derives from Doktoro Esperanto , the pseudonym under which L. L. Zamenhof published the first book detailing Esperanto, the Unua Libro, in 1887...
and other languages.
The aim of the publishers was to produce an encyclopedia reference book in Spanish that covered scientific and technological knowledge as well as history
History
History is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...
, biographies, geography
Geography
Geography is the science that studies the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth. A literal translation would be "to describe or write about the Earth". The first person to use the word "geography" was Eratosthenes...
, arts
ARts
aRts, which stands for analog Real time synthesizer, is an audio framework that is no longer under development. It is best known for previously being used in KDE to simulate an analog synthesizer....
, and the literature
Literature
Literature is the art of written works, and is not bound to published sources...
of Spain and Latin America
Latin America
Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...
.
According to calculations made by its publishers, the encyclopaedia has more than 165,000 pages and 200 million words. The 82-volume version is also estimated to have over 1,000,000 articles (Kister 450).
Only minor revisions have been made to the original volumes, such as the rewrite of a part of the 1910 "bicicleta" article which had enumerated a "pistol
Pistol
When distinguished as a subset of handguns, a pistol is a handgun with a chamber that is integral with the barrel, as opposed to a revolver, wherein the chamber is separate from the barrel as a revolving cylinder. Typically, pistols have an effective range of about 100 feet.-History:The pistol...
or revolver
Revolver
A revolver is a repeating firearm that has a cylinder containing multiple chambers and at least one barrel for firing. The first revolver ever made was built by Elisha Collier in 1818. The percussion cap revolver was invented by Samuel Colt in 1836. This weapon became known as the Colt Paterson...
" as one of the things to be taken on a bicycle
Bicycle
A bicycle, also known as a bike, pushbike or cycle, is a human-powered, pedal-driven, single-track vehicle, having two wheels attached to a frame, one behind the other. A person who rides a bicycle is called a cyclist, or bicyclist....
tour.
In 2003 a repackaged version was published in 90 volumes, consisting of the original 82 volumes plus a new 8-volume "Complemento Enciclopédico 1934-2002" providing up-to-date information in alphabetical order. The old supplements will no longer be republished.
Volumes
- A-ACD
- ACE-ADZ
- AE-ALAK
- ALAL-ALLY
- AM-ARCH
- ARD-AZZ
- B-BELL
- BEM-BONF
- BONG-BZ
- C-CANAJ
- CANAL-CARZ
- CAS-CG
- CI-COLD
- COLE-CONST
- CONST-CRAZ
- CRE-CHARG
- CHARI-DELLW
- PT.1 DEM-DIR / PT.2 DIS-ECZ
- ECH-ENRE
- ENRI-ESPAN
- ESPANA
- ESPANA-EZZ
- F-FLAMEZ
- FLAMI-FUH
- FUI-GIBZ
- GIC-GUAZ
- GUB-HN
- PT.1 HO-INSUS / PT.2 INT-KZ
- L-LEON
- LEONA-LOMZ
- LON-MADZ
- MAE-MARH
- MARI-MECH
- MED-MICZ
- MICH-MOMZ
- MON-MTZ
- MU-NEBY
- NEC-NULLY
- NUM-OQU
- OR-PAKU
- PAL-PAROZ
- PARE-PEKZ
- PEL-PESZ
- PET-PIRZ
- PIS-POLN
- POLO-PREDZ
- PREE-PTZ
- PU-QW
- R-REEZ
- REF-REUZ
- REV-ROM
- ROMA-SAINT
- SAINTE-StaCRUZ
- StaCUBICIA-SELH
- SELI-SIEZ
- SIF-SOL
- SOLA-SUBN
- SUBO-TALASZ
- TALAT-TELD
- TELE-TERZ
- TES-TIRN
- TIRO-TOUM
- TOUN-TRAZ
- TRE-TUMZ
- TUN-URZ
- U.S.-VAREZ
- VARF-VERQ
- VERR-VINIE
- VINIF-WEF
- WEG-ZZ
Appendices
- A-BECH
- BED-CEO
- CER-DEM
- DEN-EZT
- F-HOK
- HOL-MARCH
- MARD-OZ
- P-REE
- REF-SZ
- T-ZYX
Supplements
- 1934
- 1935
- 1936-39 PRIMERA PARTE / 1936-39 SEGUNDA PARTE
- 1940-41
- 1942-44
- 1945-48
- 1949-52
- 1953-54
- 1955-56
- 1957-58
- 1959-60
- 1961-62
- 1963-64
- 1965-66
- 1967-68
- 1969-70
- 1971-72
- 1973-74
- 1975-76
- 1977-78
- 1979-80
- 1981-82
- 1983-84
- 1985-86
- 1987-88
- 1989-90
- 1991-92
- 1993-94
- 1995-96
- 1997-98
- 1999-2000
- 2001-02
- 2003-2004
- El siglo de la Espasa
External links
Homepage for the Enciclopedia Espasa Racismo enciclopédico, Xavier Lacosta. Criticism of the articles about Equatorial GuineaEquatorial Guinea
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