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  2. Encyclopædia Britannica First Edition - Wikipedia

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    The Encyclopædia Britannica First Edition (1768–1771) is a 3-volume reference work, an edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. It was developed during the encyclopaedia's earliest period as a two-man operation founded by Colin Macfarquhar and Andrew Bell, in Edinburgh, Scotland, and was sold unbound in subscription format over a period of 3 ...

  3. Sofya Kovalevskaya - Wikipedia

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    Sofya Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya (Russian: Софья Васильевна Ковалевская ), born Korvin-Krukovskaya (15 January [ O.S. 3 January] 1850 – 10 February 1891), was a Russian mathematician who made noteworthy contributions to analysis, partial differential equations and mechanics. She was a pioneer for women in mathematics ...

  4. History of the Encyclopædia Britannica - Wikipedia

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    The so-called New Encyclopædia Britannica (or Britannica 3) had a unique three-part organization: a single Propædia (Primer for Education) volume, which aimed to provide an outline of "all known information"; a 10-volume Micropædia (Small Education) of 102,214 short articles (strictly less than 750 words); and a 19-volume Macropædia (Large ...

  5. Johannes Gutenberg - Wikipedia

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    Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg[ a] ( c. 1393–1406 – 3 February 1468) was a German inventor and craftsman who invented the movable-type printing press. Though movable type was already in use in East Asia, Gutenberg's invention of the printing press [ 2] enabled a much faster rate of printing. The printing press later spread ...

  6. Encyclopædia Britannica - Wikipedia

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    Britannica Junior was first published in 1934 as 12 volumes. It was expanded to 15 volumes in 1947, and renamed Britannica Junior Encyclopædia in 1963. [26] It was taken off the market after the 1984 printing. A British Children's Britannica edited by John Armitage was issued in London in 1960. [27]

  7. William Smellie (encyclopedist) - Wikipedia

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    Founder of the Newtonian Club (1760) William Smellie FRSE FSA Scot (1740–1795) was a Scottish printer who edited the first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. He was also a naturalist and antiquary. He was a joint founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, co-founder of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, and a friend of Robert Burns .

  8. Encyclopedia Americana - Wikipedia

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    Encyclopedia Americana is a general encyclopedia [1] written in American English.It was the first general encyclopedia of any magnitude to be published in North America. [2]: 31 With Collier's Encyclopedia and Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopedia Americana became one of the three major and large English-language general encyclopedias; the three were sometimes collectively called "the ABCs of ...

  9. Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition - Wikipedia

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    The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition (1910–1911) is a 29-volume reference work, an edition of the real Encyclopædia Britannica. It was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time.

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