Simon Garfield Books
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All the Knowledge in the World
The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopedia
Simon Garfield 2023 / Bvt Lib 030.9 GAR
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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
- 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-??
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