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All the Knowledge in the World

The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopedia

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• 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"

• 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"

• p144 Renatus Gotthelf Löbel ->Friedrich Arnold 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"

• p149 Encyclopédie méthodique

• 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

  • Morocco leather

• p174 amuse bouche "mouth amuser" free chef-selected appetizer

• p177 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 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

• p223 Monty Python encyclopedia salesman

• 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

• p248 James Murphy Who Says You Can't Sell Ice To Eskimos?

• p243-258 deceptive sales practices, i.e. claiming "advertising research"
• p259 Philip Larkin, homosexuality began in 1929, "Sexual Inversion"

• p266 Alexander von Humboldt

• 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

• p285 The Two Ronnies The Encyclopaedia Salesman

• 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

• p305 Wikimania 5 day conference

• p306 Thank God our enterprise works in practice, because it could never work in theory.
• p315 550 staff and contractors