The Nuttall encyclopædia :  being a concise and comprehensive dictionary of…

The Nuttall encyclopædia : being a concise and comprehensive dictionary of…

Nuttall, P. Austin, 1793?-1869, Wood, James, Rev., 1820-1901 | 461690 words

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Always visible content "The Nuttall Encyclopædia" by P. Austin Nuttall is a concise encyclopedia fir...st published in 1900. Named for Dr. Peter Austin Nuttall, this reference work contains over 16,000 brief articles covering history, biography, geography, literature, philosophy, religion, science, and art. The entries are notably short and often reflect a distinct British perspective on world events. While it includes fictional characters from Dickens, it curiously lacks entries for common subjects like fruit, revealing the Hidden checkbox to control the toggle Clickable label to show more The extra text that is initially hidden Clickable label to show less editor's selective worldview. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Chapters

34 chapters
Ch. 1

Chapter 1

Ch. 2

1. Noted people, their nationality, the time when they flourished, and

Ch. 3

2. Epochs, important movements, and events in history, with the dates and

Ch. 4

3. Countries, provinces, and towns, with descriptions of them, their

Ch. 5

4. Heavenly bodies, especially those connected with the solar system,

Ch. 6

6. Mythologies, and the account they severally give of the divine and

Ch. 7

7. Religions of the world, with their respective credos and objects and

Ch. 8

8. Schools of philosophy, with their theories of things and of the

Ch. 9

9. Sects and parties, under the different systems of belief or polity,

Ch. 10

10. Books of the world, especially the sacred ones, and the spiritual