Language English Originally published 1977 Genre Encyclopedia | ISBN 0-39458450-3 Country United States of America | |
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Cover artist Peter Bradford and Orville Ottey Pages about 2911 (revised edition) Similar Encyclopedia books, Reference work books | ||
The Random House Encyclopedia is an English language one-volume encyclopaedia published by Random House. Its first edition was published in 1977 and revised edition 1990. It was divided into two sections: Colorpedia, which is made of lengthy articles and Alphapedia, which has short alphabetically arranged ones. There was an electronic format made of the encyclopaedia from its 1990 edition. It was made for the MS-DOS 3.3 operating system and was distributed on sixteen 5 ¼-inch floppy disks and also by eight 3 ½ floppys. It has more than 20,000 articles.
Contents
- The Universe 32
- The Earth 160
- Life on Earth 400
- Man 640
- History and Culture 944
- Man and Science 1432
- Man and Machines 1576
- Time Chart: Text 1825
References
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