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 .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 ]]
 .p200 Encyclopedias in David Copperfield, The Red-Headed League, Vonnegut's "Where I Live"
 .p202 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Luis_Borges | Jorge Luis Borges ]] 1941 [[ https://archive.org/details/TheLibraryOfBabel | The Library of Babel ]]
 .p215 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._G._Wells | H.G. Wells ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Brain | World Encyclopedia ]] ... 1937 "no world conflict for 2 years, nations not quite ready"
 .p221 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Work,_Wealth_and_Happiness_of_Mankind | The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind ]] [[ https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.236513/page/n3/mode/2up | 901pp ]] H. G. Wells, 1932, 850 pages
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