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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. is the company known for publishing the Encyclopædia Britannica, the world's oldest continuously published encyclopaedia. The company also owns the American dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster .
The Encyclopædia Britannica is an English-language general reference encyclopedia, published since 1768. [1] The Britannica was first published in Edinburgh, Scotland, in three volumes, with printer William Smellie serving as its principal editor.
Encyclopædia Britannica, a printed encyclopedia, and Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia. An encyclopedia [a] is a reference work or compendium providing summaries of knowledge, either general or special, in a particular field or discipline.
Wikipedia's outline goes into more depth on some subjects, but has many blatant gaps Britannica's does not have. Britannica's outline goes 7 levels deep. (As of May 2009) Wikipedia's Outline of knowledge goes 9 levels deep in some places, the hierarchy extending from page-to-page (when an outline page is the subtopic of another outline page ...
Advertisement for Encyclopædia Britannica, 1913. The Encyclopædia Britannica has been published continuously since 1768, appearing in fifteen official editions. Several editions have been amended with multi-volume "supplements" (third, fifth/sixth), consisted of previous editions with added supplements (10th, and 12th/13th) or gone drastic re-organizations (15th).
Wikipedia is a free content, multilingual online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteer contributors, known as Wikipedians, through a model of open collaboration. It is the largest and most-read reference work in history. [10] Wikipedia originally developed from another encyclopedia project called Nupedia. [11]
Britannica (Encyclopædia Britannica - Polish edition): 49 vols (1997–2005) Encyklopedia białych plam: 20 vols (2000–2006) Encyklopedia nowej generacji E2.0 (2008) Encyklopedia ogólna wiedzy ludzkiej: 12 vols (1872–1877)