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The Chinese wrote the first encyclopedia in about 220 A.D. It was called The Emperor’s Mirror, and included historical texts, biographies, and literary anthologies. No copies survived. The next known extensive encyclopedic work came from Spain and was titled Etymologiae. Saint Isidore of Seville is credited with writing it somet
