『サイクロペディア、または諸芸諸学の百科事典』(サイクロペディア、またはしょげいしょがくのひゃっかじてん、Cyclopædia: or, An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences)は、イーフレイム・チェンバーズによって製作され、1728年に初版が出版された百科事典である[1]。1728年から1751年にかけて6版が刊行され、1753年に追補版が刊行された[2]。英語で製作された最初の百科事典の一つである。
初版のタイトルページには、著者の狙いが次のように書かれている。
Cyclopædia: or, An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences; containing the Definitions of the Terms, and Accounts of the Things signify'd thereby, in the several Arts, both Liberal and Mechanical, and the several Sciences, Human and Divine: the Figures, Kinds, Properties, Productions, Preparations, and Uses, of Things Natural and Artificial; the Rise, Progress, and State of Things Ecclesiastical, Civil, Military, and Commercial: with the several Systems, Sects, Opinions, &c. among Philosophers, Divines, Mathematicians, Physicians, Antiquaries, Criticks, &c. The Whole intended as a Course of Antient and Modern Learning.
^Chambers, Ephraim (1728). Cyclopædia: or, An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (1 ed.). London: James & John Knapton; John Darby; and others Two volumes in folio.
Bradshaw, Lael Ely. "Ephraim Chambers' Cyclopedia." Notable Encyclopedias of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Nine Predecessors of the Encyclopédie. Ed. Frank Kafker. Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation, 1981. 123–137. (ISBN0-7294-0256-8).
Collison, Robert. Encyclopædias: Their History Throughout the Ages. New York: Hafner, 1966. OCLC368968
Kafker, Frank. A. Notable Encyclopedias of the Late Eighteenth Century: Eleven Successors of the Encyclopédie. Oxford : Voltaire Foundation at the Taylor Institution, 1994.
Kolb, Gwin J. and James H. Sledd. "Johnson's 'Dictionary' and Lexicographical Tradition." Modern Philology 50.3 (Feb. 1953): 171–194.
Mack, Ruth. "The Historicity of Johnson's Lexicographer." Representations 76 (Fall 2001): 61–87.
Shorr, Phillip. Science and Superstition in the Eighteenth Century: A Study of the Treatment of Science in Two Encyclopedias of 1725–1750. New York: Columbia, 1932. OCLC3633346
Walsh, S. Patraig. "Cyclopaedia." Anglo-American General Encyclopedias: A Historical Bibliography, 1703–1967. New York: R.R. Bowker, 1968. 38–39. OCLC577541
Yeo, Richard. "The Best Book in the Universe": Ephraim Chambers' Cyclopedia. In Encyclopædic Visions: Scientific Dictionaries and Enlightenment Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2001. 120–169. (ISBN0-521-65191-3)
Yeo, Richard R. "A Solution to the Multitude of Books: Ephraim Chambers's Cyclopaedia (1728) as "the Best Book in the Universe."" Journal of the History of Ideas, v. 64 (1), 2003. pp. 61–72. (ISSN0022-5037)