![]() This article needs additional citations for. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ![]() Nov 29, 2007. Look no further - the world's biggest Encyclopedia. Features: over 1.5 million articles carefully checked for accuracy and completeness by a team of experts; 100 times as many articles as in Concise Encyclopedia Britannica; 15 times as many articles as in the 17 volume paper edition of Encyclopedia. Jan 30, 2013. With Encyclopaedia Britannica for Windows 8 you can access to the full article content of the one hundred 'Top Articles', the full article content of the. (June 2016) () Encyclopedias of various types had been published since antiquity, beginning with the collected works of and the of, the latter having 2493 articles in 37 books. Encyclopedias were published in Europe and China throughout the, such as the of (early 5th century), the Speculum majus ( Great Mirror) of (1250), and Encyclopedia septem tomis distincta ( A Seven-Part Encyclopedia) by (1630). Most early encyclopedias did not include biographies of living people and were written in, although some encyclopedias were translated into English, such as De proprietatibus rerum (On the properties of things) (1240). However, English-composed encyclopedias appeared in the 18th century, beginning with Lexicon technicum, or A Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences by (two volumes, published 1704 and 1710, respectively), which contained articles by such contributors as. Wrote a very popular two-volume in 1728, which went through multiple editions and awakened publishers to the enormous profit potential of encyclopedias. Although not all encyclopedias succeeded commercially, their elements sometimes inspired future encyclopedias; for example, the failed two-volume A Universal History of Arts and Sciences of (published 1745) grouped its topics into long self-contained treatises, an organization that likely inspired the 'new plan' of the Britannica. The first encyclopedia to include biographies of living people was the 64-volume (published 1732–1759) of, who argued that death alone should not render people notable. Earliest editions (1st–6th, 1768–1824) [ ] First edition, 1771 [ ]. —, at a meeting of the The vivid prose and easy navigation of the first edition led to strong demand for a second. Although this edition has been faulted for its imperfect scholarship, Smellie argued that the Britannica should be given the benefit of the doubt: With regard to errors in general, whether falling under the denomination of mental, typographical or accidental, we are conscious of being able to point out a greater number than any critic whatever. Men who are acquainted with the innumerable difficulties of attending the execution of a work of such an extensive nature will make proper allowances. To these we appeal, and shall rest satisfied with the judgment they pronounce. After the success of the first edition, a more ambitious was begun in 1776, with the addition of history and biography articles. Smellie declined to be editor, principally because he objected to the addition of biography. Macfarquhar took over the role himself, aided by pharmacist, M.A., who was known as an able writer and willing to work for a very low wage. Macfarquhar and Bell rescued Tytler from the debtors' sanctuary at Holyrood Palace, and employed him for seven years at 17 shillings per week. Tytler wrote many science and history articles and almost all of the minor articles; by ' estimate, Tytler wrote over three-quarters of the second edition. Compared to the 1st edition, the second had five times as many long articles (150), including 'Scotland' (84 pages), 'Optics' (132 pages), and 'Medicine' (309 pages), which had their own indices. The second edition was published in 181 numbers from 21 June 1777 to 18 September 1784; these numbers were bound into ten volumes dated 1778–1783, having 8,595 pages and 340 plates again engraved.
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