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- Encyclopedia Britannica | Britannica
Explore the fact-checked online encyclopedia from Encyclopaedia Britannica with hundreds of thousands of objective articles, biographies, videos, and images from experts
- History, Editions, Facts - Encyclopaedia Britannica
Encyclopædia Britannica, the oldest English-language general encyclopaedia The Encyclopædia Britannica was first published in 1768, when it began to appear in Edinburgh, Scotland
- Characteristics of an encyclopedia | Britannica
Encyclopédie, (French: “Encyclopaedia, or Classified Dictionary of Sciences, Arts, and Trades”), the 18th-century French encyclopaedia that was one of the chief works of the Philosophes, men dedicated to the advancement of science and secular thought and the new tolerance and open-mindedness of the Encyclopædia Britannica Summary
- Encyclopedia | Definition, History, Examples, Facts | Britannica
Encyclopædia Britannica was designed for the use of the curious and intelligent layman The editor of The Columbia Encyclopedia in 1935 tried to provide a work that was compact enough and written simply enough to serve as a guide to the “young Abraham Lincoln ”
- Encyclopædia Britannica - Reference Work, 11th Edition, Supplements . . .
The 11th edition brought a change in both plan and method of the Encyclopædia Britannica Previous editions had consistently planned to provide comprehensive treatises on major subjects as well as detailed information on particulars and had inevitably lacked coherence because of the method of printing, whereby they appeared in parts over a
- Encyclopaedia - Encyclopaedias in general | Britannica
In its very first edition the Encyclopædia Britannica included lengthy articles containing detailed instructions on such topics as surgery, bookkeeping, and many aspects of farming
- Encyclopædia Britannica - Digital Reference, Encyclopedia, Knowledge . . .
For readers unfamiliar with particular words included in the text, a dictionary and thesaurus from Merriam-Webster (a subsidiary of Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc ) was also integrated, enabling users to double-click on a word to bring up its definition
- Encyclopædia Britannica - Reference Work, 15th Edition | Britannica
Encyclopædia Britannica - Reference Work, 15th Edition: Upon Hutchins’s retirement in 1974, Adler succeeded him as chairman of the Board of Editors
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