Simon Garfield Books
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All the Knowledge in the World
The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopedia
Simon Garfield 2023 / Bvt Lib 030.9 GAR
wikipedia: Simon Garfield All the Knowledge in the World
- p001 S. Garfield purchases supplements for Britannica 4th/5th/6th 1815 to 1824
p001 formerly owned by P. M. Roget, MD, FRS
p002-008 more Britannica sets, also Encyclopedia Judaica and The Children's Encyclopaedia
p009 MIT Study: On Twitter, false news travels faster than true stories
- p010 Women underappreciated until 1910 11th edition Britannica
p010 Thomas Savage 1967 novel The Power of the Dog
- p012 Monty Python "I've come to rob your house" "Well OK, just as long as you're not selling encyclopedias."
p015-7 Andrew Bell big nose, engravings for 1st-4th Brittanica
- p029-33 Alphabetical order became widespread in 1400s
- p033 Alphabetical order encouraged buyers of shilling volumes A and B to purchase the rest
- p033 abecedarianism
p034 Samuel Taylor Coleridge p155 Encyclopædia Metropolitana
- p038 Encyclopedia Britannica 1st Ed sold last of 3000 sets in 1770s
p039 Smellie becomes owner of Crochallan Fencibles drinking club
p041 Robert Lewis Collison UK 1914-1989Encyclopaedias: Their History Throughout the Ages 40 encyclopedias predating Britannica
p043 Pliny the Elder Naturalis Historia AD 77-79-??
p047 Bishop Isadore of Seville"patron saint of the internet"
p057 Chalcenterocity: "bowels of brass, possessing a tough, indominable and possibly foolhardy nature" Suda 10th century Byzantine encyclopedia
p071 Yongle Dadian 1403-8
- 370 (not 3.7) million characters on 22937 manuscript rolls/chapters, 11085 volumes (917,000? pages?)
p071 Zhu Di 370 (not 3.7) million characters on 917,000(??) pages
p075 leishu Chinese encyclopedia
p075 Siku Quanshu
p076 ref note König and Woolf, above note on page 54 Encyclopedism from Antiquity to the Renaissance
p079 Shakespeare's Encyclopedias in König and Woolf Neil Rhodes
p086 Antoine Furetière 1690 Dictionnaire universel
p086 John Keill An examination of Dr. Burnet's Theory of the Earth 1698
p093 Denis Diderot and his brilliant (but cancer-disfigured) sister Denise
p094 Encyclopédie 1751-1772 28 volumes 71,818 articles
p094 Sophie Volland Diderot's lover
p099 The Encyclopedists as individuals : a biographical dictionary of the authors of the Encyclopédie Frank A. and Serena L. Kafker
p102 François le Breton]
p105 Diderot's 1765 "Human Species" article comically ignorant of "degenerate" foreigners and enslaved people
p109 Alexandre Deleyre
p109 Antoine Louis
p110 Jean-Joseph Menuret de Chambard Manstrupation=masturbation
- p110 Jean-David Perronet ??
p111 The Encyclopedia of Diderot & D'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project
p113 Taste
p118 Jacob August Franckenstein Grosses vollständiges Universal-Lexicon 284,000 entries, 63,000 pages, 67 million words
- p123 Encyclopedia Britannica second edition 1784, 3 volumes to 10, 12 pounds, four times cost per set, 15 years of a carpenter's salary
p125 new editor James Tytler
p126 new articles "steam engines" and "Fluxions"
p132 Dobson's Encyclopaedia 1789 Americanized "Britannica"
- p136 omissions: Declaration of Independence, no Americans (not even Benjamin Franklin)
- p137 fire, generous support, set comleted 1798
p141 Ökonmishce Encyklopädie 1773 to 1858, 242 volumes
p143 Conversations-Lexikon oder kurzgefasstes Handwörterbuch für die in der gesellschaftlichen Unterhaltung aus den Wissenschaften und Künsten vorkommenden Gegenständen: mit beständiger Rücksicht auf die Ereignisse der älteren und neueren Zeit almost 200 years to 2006
- p144 known as "Brockhaus"
- p145 designed for young adults, not just highly qualified
p145 translated "Brockhaus" 7th edition evolved into Encyclopedia Americana (1829-33)
p147 Cyclopaedia expanded between 1802 and 1819, references to end-of-alphabet topics waited more than a decade
- p148 weird ordering, i.e. "York, New"
- p152 Brittanica 7th (1830-1842) and 8th (1853-1860) 21 volumes
- p154 Single subject (gardening, music) "encyclopedias
p155 Samuel Taylor Coleridge Encyclopaedia Metropolitana 1817-1845, 30 quarto volumes
- p160 Brittanica 9th Vol 1 1875 Vol 24 1888
p161 Rayleigh and Ramsey isolated "rare" (??? 0.93% ) gas Argon in 1894, 1904 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
p168 Horace Hooper and The Times advertising manager Henry Haxton
p170 Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition 1910-1911
p174 amuse bouche "mouth amuser" free chef-selected appetizer
p177 Malphagian
- p182 11th edition (1910-1911) one million sets, more than previous editions combined
p183 Janet Courtney High Holborn offices
p186 Agnes Mary Clerke ... four books on astronomy
In 2002, Mary Brück wrote Agnes Mary Clerke and the Rise of Astrophysics
- p187 male-dominated; Marie Curie mentioned briefly in the "Pierre Curie" article
- p188 Bookcases made before books; too narrow, so W-Z entries paired down
editor Hugh Chisholm suggested eliminating "Women" article entirely
p193 note The Humanizing of Knowledge by James Harvey Robinson 1924
- p195 Contributors paid 2 cents per word, Einstein paid $86.40 for "Space-Time".
- p196 14th edition, 24 volumes, 1929 to 1974
- p199 Anthony Burgess 22k word article "novel",
examples "upending classical myth" include his 1949/1965A Vision of Battlements Worldcat, Amazon Archive
- p200 Encyclopedias in David Copperfield, The Red-Headed League, Vonnegut's "Where I Live"
p202 Jorge Luis Borges 1941 The Library of Babel
p215 H.G. Wells World Encyclopedia ... 1937 "no world conflict for 2 years, nations not quite ready"
p221 The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind 901pp H. G. Wells, 1932, 850 pages
p224 Dr. Fegg's Encyclopedia of All World Knowledge: (Formerly the Nasty Book)
p238 The Myth of the Britannica, physicist Harvey Einbinder, at PSU lbrary
p243 Peter Rosengard Talking to Strangers: The Adventures of a Life Insurance Salesman
- p243-258 deceptive sales practices, i.e. claiming "advertising research"
- p259 Philip Larkin, homosexuality began in 1929, "Sexual Inversion"
p267 The Columbia Encyclopedia 1935
p270 Richard Feynman 1959 Plenty of Room at the Bottom
p271 footnote In Miniature 2019 WCCLS Cmill Tual 745.5928
- p276 1974 15th edition, Propedia, 10 volume Micropedia 102K topics, 19 volume Macropedia 4200 topics
p283 A. J. Jacobs 2004 The Know-It-All Central 031 J17k 2004 read entire 15th edition in a year
p287 Kister's Kister's best encyclopedias PSU
p293 Harvard's Shane Greenstein 2017 paper The Reference Wars also Is Wikipedia Biased? 2012
p296-302 development of Encarta 1993-2009
book attributes Encarta failure to the PC, Wikipedia references attribute failure to Wikipedia
- p306 Thank God our enterprise works in practice, because it could never work in theory.
- p315 550 staff and contractors
p319 Donna Strickland 2018 Nobel Physics Prize Chirped Pulse Amplification
- p320 October 2019 17.8% Wikipedia biographies about women
p324 Larry Sanger left Wikipedia in 2002, founded Citizendium in 2006, intended for rigor and fact checking
p325 Climate change "semi-protected?
p329 "wub" (Peter Coombe, b 1987) adds reference to exploding duck
- p333 at time of writing, Koavf (Justin Knapp) 2098059 edits, Ser Amatntio di Nicolao 3756703 edits
- p339 "Operation Enduring Encyclopedia" not found
p342 Janeen Uzzell COO Wikipedia before 2021
p343 Katherine Maher Wikipedia roles 2014 to 2021
p344 Maryana Iskander Wikipedia CEO
p345 Isaac Kaufmann Funk Adam Willis Wagnalls Funk & Wagnalls company 1877 -> Encarta
p355 1968 Bicentennial
p359 Map of Ignorance
p359 Piet Hein: Knowing what / thou knowest not / is in a sense / omniscience
p359 Nichtwossenskulturen, cultures of ignorance
p369 Żywiec 14 lines in Britannica; Wikipedia: 100+ lines, 17 photos, map, dozens of links, 17 references