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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

• p017-23 Colin Macfarquhar printer, William Smellie editor

• 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

• p062 Otia Imperialia Gervase of Tilbury

• p066 Speculum Maius, the Great Mirror Vincent of Beuvais

• p069 The Canterbury Tales Chaucer

• 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

• p083 Ephraim Chambers Cyclopædia

• p086 Antoine Furetière 1690 Dictionnaire universel

• p086 John Harris Lexicon Technicum

• 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

• p100 Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert

• 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 Joseph-Ignace Guillotin Guillotin

• p110 Jean-Joseph Menuret de Chambard Manstrupation=masturbation

• p110 Louis Necker de Germany

• p110 Jean-David Perronet ??

• p111 The Encyclopedia of Diderot & D'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project

• p111 Paul-Joseph BarthezWomen

• p112 Voltaire Elegance History

• p113 Taste

• p114 Jean-Jacques Rousseau Political Economy

• p115 Gustave Flaubert Bouvard et Pécuchet

• 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"