17.The Encyclopedia Britannica is a world-famous encyclopedia.It is the oldest English-language encyclopedia.The first edition was published in 1768,and of course,the first edition had the fewest volumes,but since then there have been 15editions.The 15th edition is made up of 32volumes.Together...
The Encyclopedia Britannica is a world-famous encyclopedia.It is the oldest English-language encyclopedia.The first edition was published in 1768,and of course,the first edition had the fewest volumes,but since then there have been 15editions.The 15th edition is made up of 32volumes.Together they...
The Encyclopædia Britannica was first published in 1768, when it began to appear in Edinburgh, Scotland. Who made the first encyclopedia? The “Natural History” of Pliny the Elder is generally considered the first encyclopedia. The 1st century Roman writer aimed to gather together all human ...
In the20th century,Encyclopædia Britannicareached its fifteenth edition, and cheap encyclopedias such asHarmsworth's EncyclopaediaandEveryman's Encyclopaediawere common. More recently encyclopedias are also being publishedonline. Traditional encyclopedias are written by a number of employed textwriters,...
The account thus presented to us of what the previous confusion was, underlines and attests the summary exposition of it given in the last edition of this work. It was there stated that, on the most favourable estimate, the normal deficit of the Turkish treasury was T2,725,000, (upwards ...
This tendency was largely due to a doubt whether the Federal government under the Constitution possessed the power to initiate general statistical inquiries, a doubt well expressed in the 9th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica by Francis A. Walker, himself a prominent member of the party whose...
(who argued for a Joseph Smith psycho-biographical basis and publicized the influence from Ethan Smith's writings). Along with the contemporary publication of rather similar origins explanations in the 1911 edition of theEncyclopedia Britannica,theSchaff-Herzog'shesitant use of the traditional claims ...
Besides the works mentioned in the article, reference may be made to the following: E.A. Abbott, article "Gospels" in Encyclopedia Britannica (11th edition), edition 9 (with Rushbrooke), Common Tradition of the Synoptic Gospels, and other works; Sanday, Gospels in the 2nd Century, The Life...
Article from the Encyclopedia Britannica11th edition (1911) TYNDALE (or TINDALE), WILLIAM (c. 1492-1536), translator of the New Testament and Pentateuch (see BIBLE, ENGLISH), was born on the Welsh border, probably in Gloucestershire, some time between 1490 and 1495. In Easter term 1510 ...
If the Encyclopaedia Britannica shall in any degree counteract the tendency of that pestiferous works, even these two volumes will not be wholly unworthy of your Majesty’s attention." Professor Robinson added 19 articles to the series he had begun when the third edition was so far advanced. ...