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Blog :Biggest and Earliest Encyclopedia
Posted by admin on Aug 14, 2009 in China's World Best
The biggest and earliest encyclopedia in the world is theYongle Encyclopedia(Yongle Da Dianin Chinese), complied between 1403 and 1408 in the Ming Dynasty by more than 2,000 scholars. It consists of 22,937 volumes. Yongle is thereign name of the Ming emperor Yongle (1402-1424). The original edition of this large work was comprised of 917,480 pages [...]
