the first Polish language encyclopedia was called New Athens published in 1745 it contains some of the very best definitions ever crafted by mankind the entry for the word horse defines it as what a horse is everybody knows the entrance for the word dog largely containing a story about a duke who trained his pet dog to do the table class trick in the entry for Dragon contains the admonition it’s hard to beat a dragon but you must try Encyclopedia is a compendium of contemporary religious and scientific knowledge broadly written for popular consumption and to arouse the interest of the general public which is evidenced by its full title the Academy full of all sciences divided into subjects and classes for the wise ones to record for the idiots to learn for the politicians to practice and for the melancholics to entertain