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.p047 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isidore_of_Seville | Bishop Isadore of Seville ]][[ https://www.up.edu/garaventa/did-you-know/internet-patron-saints.html | "patron saint of the internet" ]] .p057 Chalcenterocity: "bowels of brass, possessing a tough, indominable and possibly foolhardy nature" [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suda | Suda ]] 10th century Byzantine encyclopedia .p062 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otia_Imperialia | Otia Imperialia ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gervase_of_Tilbury | Gervase of Tilbury ]] .p066 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculum_Maius | Speculum Maius, the Great Mirror ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_of_Beauvais | Vincent of Beuvais ]] .p069 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Canterbury_Tales | The Canterbury Tales ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Chaucer | Chaucer ]] .p071 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yongle_Encyclopedia | Yongle Dadian ]] 1403-8 . 370 (not 3.7) million characters on 22937 manuscript rolls/chapters, 11085 volumes (917,000? pages?) .p071 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yongle_Emperor | Zhu Di ]] 370 (not 3.7) million characters on 917,000(??) pages .p075 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leishu | leishu ]] Chinese encyclopedia .p075 [[ https://clevelandart.libguides.com/SikuQuanshu#:~:text=Introduction,a%20unique%2C%20fully%20online%20format. | Siku Quanshu ]] .p076 ref note ''König and Woolf, above'' note on page 54 [[ https://search.worldcat.org/title/844073740 | Encyclopedism from Antiquity to the Renaissance ]] .p079 [[ https://search.worldcat.org/title/844073740 | Shakespeare's Encyclopedias in König and Woolf ]] [[ https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/english/people/nppr/ | Neil Rhodes ]] .p083 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephraim_Chambers | Ephraim Chambers ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclopaedia,_or_an_Universal_Dictionary_of_Arts_and_Sciences | Cyclopædia ]] .p086 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_Fureti%C3%A8re | Antoine Furetière ]] 1690 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictionnaire_universel | Dictionnaire universel ]] .p086 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harris_(writer) | John Harris ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexicon_Technicum | Lexicon Technicum ]] .p086 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Keill | John Keill ]] [[ https://search.worldcat.org/title/5041810 | An examination of Dr. Burnet's Theory of the Earth 1698 ]] .p093 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Diderot | Denis Diderot ]] and his brilliant (but cancer-disfigured) sister Denise .p094 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A9die | Encyclopédie ]] 1751-1772 28 volumes 71,818 articles .p094 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Volland | Sophie Volland ]] Diderot's lover .p099 [[ https://search.worldcat.org/title/21520545 | The Encyclopedists as individuals : a biographical dictionary of the authors of the Encyclopédie ]] Frank A. and Serena L. Kafker .p100 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_le_Rond_d%27Alembert | Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert ]] .p102 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_le_Breton | François le Breton ]]] .p105 Diderot's 1765 "Human Species" article ''comically ignorant'' of "degenerate" foreigners and enslaved people .p109 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Deleyre| Alexandre Deleyre ]] .p109 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_Louis | Antoine Louis ]] .p110 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph-Ignace_Guillotin | Joseph-Ignace Guillotin ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillotine | Guillotin ]] .p110 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Joseph_Menuret | Jean-Joseph Menuret de Chambard ]] Manstrupation=masturbation .p110 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Necker | Louis Necker de Germany ]] .p110 Jean-David Perronet ?? .p111 '''[[ https://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/did | The Encyclopedia of Diderot & D'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project ]]''' .p111 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Joseph_Barthez | Paul-Joseph Barthez ]][[ https://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/did/did2222.0000.181/--woman?rgn=main;view=fulltext;q1=Paul-Joseph+Barthez | Women ]] .p112 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltaire | Voltaire ]] [[ https://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/did/did2222.0000.232/--elegance?rgn=main;view=fulltext;q1=Voltaire | Elegance ]] [[ https://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/did/did2222.0000.088/--history?rgn=main;view=fulltext;q1=Voltaire | History ]] .p113 [[ https://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/did/did2222.0000.168/--taste?rgn=main;view=fulltext;q1=Voltaire | Taste ]] .p114 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Rousseau | Jean-Jacques Rousseau ]] [[ https://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/did/did2222.0000.121/--economy-abridged?rgn=main;view=fulltext;q1=Rousseau | Political Economy ]] .p115 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Flaubert | Gustave Flaubert ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouvard_et_P%C3%A9cuchet | Bouvard et Pécuchet ]] .p118 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_August_Franckenstein | Jacob August Franckenstein ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grosses_vollst%C3%A4ndiges_Universal-Lexicon | 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 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Tytler | James Tytler ]] .p126 new articles "steam engines" and [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_Fluxions | "Fluxions" ]] .p132 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Dobson_(printer) | 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 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oeconomische_Encyclop%C3%A4die | Ökonmishce Encyklopädie ]] 1773 to 1858, 242 volumes .p143 [[ https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=7gtCAAAAcAAJ&pg=GBS.PA2&hl=en | 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" .p144 [[ https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renatus_Gotthelf_L%C3%B6bel | Renatus Gotthelf Löbel ]] ->[[ https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Arnold_Brockhaus | Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus ]] .p145 designed for young adults, not just highly qualified .p145 translated "Brockhaus" 7th edition evolved into [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedia_Americana | Encyclopedia Americana (1829-33) ]] .p147 [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclop%C3%A6dia,_or_an_Universal_Dictionary_of_Arts_and_Sciences | Cyclopaedia ]] expanded between 1802 and 1819, references to end-of-alphabet topics waited more than a decade .p148 weird ordering, i.e. "York, New" .p149 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A9die_M%C3%A9thodique | Encyclopédie méthodique ]] .p152 Brittanica 7th (1830-1842) and 8th (1853-1860) 21 volumes .p154 Single subject (gardening, music) "encyclopedias .p155 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge | Samuel Taylor Coleridge ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Metropolitana | Encyclopaedia Metropolitana ]] 1817-1845, 30 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarto | quarto ]] volumes .p160 Brittanica 9th Vol 1 1875 Vol 24 1888 .p161 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_William_Strutt,_3rd_Baron_Rayleigh | Rayleigh ]] and [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ramsay | Ramsey ]] isolated "rare" (??? 0.93% ) gas [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argon | Argon ]] in 1894, 1904 Nobel Prize in Chemistry .p168 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Everett_Hooper | Horace Hooper ]] and [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Times | The Times ]] advertising manager Henry Haxton .p170 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica_Eleventh_Edition | Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition ]] 1910-1911 . [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morocco_leather | Morocco leather ]] .p174 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amuse-bouche | amuse bouche ]] "mouth amuser" free chef-selected appetizer .p177 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malpighian_layer | Malphagian ]] .p179 note [[ https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED090113.pdf ]] .p182 11th edition (1910-1911) one million sets, more than previous editions combined .p183 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_E._Courtney | Janet Courtney ]] High Holborn offices .p186 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Mary_Clerke | Agnes Mary Clerke ]] ... four books on astronomy . In 2002, Mary Brück wrote [[ https://search.worldcat.org/title/47805069 | 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 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Chisholm | Hugh Chisholm ]] suggested eliminating "Women" article entirely .p193 note [[ https://archive.org/details/humanizingofknow00robi/page/94/mode/2up | 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 1949/1965[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Vision_of_Battlements | A Vision of Battlements ]] [[ https://search.worldcat.org/title/995773854 | Worldcat, Amazon ]] [[ https://archive.org/details/visionofbattleme0000burg | Archive ]] |
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Simon Garfield Books
http://wiki.keithl.com/SimonGarfield
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