Their first known effort is the Praecepta ad filium (“Advice to His Son” c. The Romans, on the other hand, aimed to epitomize existing knowledge in readable form. The Greek approach was to record the spoken word. Aristotle’s wide-ranging lectures at the Lyceum were equally influential, and he and Plato appear to have been the originators of the encyclopaedia as a means of providing a comprehensive cultural background. Speusippus conveyed his uncle’s ideas in a series of writings on natural history, mathematics, philosophy, and so forth. The first fragments of an encyclopaedia to have survived are the work of Speusippus (died 339/338 bce), a nephew of Plato’s. History of encyclopaedias Encyclopaedias in the West Early development

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