The last volume of the three-part series comprising works of professor Krzysztof Maurin – an eminent mathematician, the founder of the Polish School of Mathematical Physics, a philosopher and thinker – contains texts taken from the Author’s notes

The publication presents the early history of an encyclopedia in a detailed and multifaceted way, deepening the existing research on the issue. The author outlines the title metaphor of an encyclopedia as “manticore” – a hybrid entity composed of words

The monograph discusses literary and cultural issues, important figures and historical facts concerning the 1860s. By referring to various phenomena of the literary production of the time and by revisiting some unknown texts it presents new research