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''Harris' Minor Encyclopedia'' is small encyclopedia compiled by The Rev. Thaddeus M. Harris in 1803 in Dorchester, Massachusetts, and published that year in Boston by West and Greenleaf.〔Title page, Minor Encyclopedia, Boston, 1803〕 It was a revised American edition of ''Kendal's Pocket Encyclopedia'', edited extensively by Harris. It consists of four volumes of approximately 300 pages each in duodecimo (4 1/2 inches by 7 inches). There are no plates. Harris covers the arts and sciences, and technology, and topics of general knowledge, but there are no geographical, biographical, or historical articles. The editor states, "Articles of local geography have been purposely omitted. The publications of Dr. Morse supersede the necessity of their introduction here...Biographical dictionaries, particularly those of Watkins and Jones, are in general circulation; and the public are expecting an elaborate and complete "Universal Biography," compiled by a Society of Literati in Albany. Nor was it possible to make these volumes the vehicle of HISTORICAL INFORMATION. It is a subject too extensive for our plan."〔The preface, ''Minor Encyclopedia'', Boston, 1803〕 ==See also== *Encyclopedists *History of books *Reference work *List of historical encyclopedias 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Minor Encyclopedia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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