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 .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 7th edition evolved into [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedia_Americana | Encyclopedia Americana (1829-33) ]]
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