The New Popular Encyclopedia: A General Dictionary of the Arts and Sciences, Literature, Biography, history, Geography &c. (In 14 vols.)

The Naturalis Historia of Plany, a roman scholar, is one of the earliest works of this type that has survived to modern times. His work covers history, medicine, geology, architecture, and different aspects of the time to which he belonged. He had compiled information from works of over 200 authors and added many more from his own experience. Besides the above mentioned, periodically updated encyclopedias there are others that were created with great pain and diligence in a specific era. These works contain information on a wide range of subjects as available in the period of their creation. The New Popular Encyclopedia – a general dictionary of arts and science, literature, biography, history, geography, etc. – is one such text that was published in the year 1901 in fourteen volumes. As the name suggests, it contains information on a wide range of subjects alphabetically arranged – information on people – historical and contemporary, different subject areas prevalent at the time and definitions of terms as applicable in that period. This work has got immense possibility to be used as a text for detailed and varied information on wide ranging topics based on knowledge available at that period.