The first edition of theEncyclopaedia Britannicawas published in three volumes in Edinburgh from 1768 to 1771. On the whole, the first eight editions were not of a very high standard. K. Marx, who used the eighth edition of the encyclopedia, remarked (based on his study of the articles on...
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The article reviews two printed editions of encyclopedias, "Encyclopedia Britannica" 15th edition and the "World Book Encyclopedia," as well as several online encyclopedia resources offered by publishers such as...
The Encyclopaedia Britannica, "by a society of gentlemen in Scotland, printed in Edinburgh for A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, and sold by Colin Macfarquhar at his printing office in Nicolson Street," was completed in 1771 in 3 volumes 4to, containing 2670 pages, and 160 copperplates engraved...
Encyclopaedia Britannica 21 (11th ed.), 841-44. Schieffelin, E. 1976. The sorrow of the lonely and the burning of the dancers. New York: St. Martin’s Press. Shaw, R. 2001. Colonialism and commodification in the Sierra Leone hinterland. In Magical interpretations: modernity, witchcraft ...
Encyclopædia Britannicaappeared in various editions throughout the century, and the growth ofpopular educationand theMechanics Institutes, spearheaded by theSociety for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledgeled to the production of thePenny Cyclopaedia, as its title suggests issued in weekly numbers at...
The Wesleys also adopted many German tunes, and their later editions contain much music in the style of Handel. The Church of England accepted hymn singing officially only in 1820, following a controversy arising from the singing of hymns at a Sheffield church. The Oxford (High Church) ...