Uma introdução à história das enciclopédias

a enciclopédia de matemática de Christian Wolff de 1716

Resumen

Through the History of the encyclopedias, the main topic of this text is to establish a relation between the appearance of the Mathematical Encyclopedias and the process of popularization of the mathematics that had begun with Renaissance and has strengthened with the first philosophical movements that culminated in European Enlightenment. Christian Wolff, Philosopher of German Enlightenment, participated in that process inaugurating the series of Mathematical Encyclopedias that appeared in Germany in the 18th century and introduced terms in the German mathematical language that have been used until nowadays.