Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Developed specifically to provide comprehensive and global coverage of the world around us, this unique product contains thousands of timely, relevant, and essential articles drawn from the Encyclopædia Britannica itself, as well as from the Britannica Concise Encyclopedia, the Britannica Encyclopedia of World Religions, and Compton's by ...
The Britannica was first published in Edinburgh, Scotland, in three volumes, with printer William Smellie serving as its principal editor. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] By 1988, the encyclopedia grew to consist of 32 volumes in total, [ 2 ] but later stopped printing physical copies to focus on the online edition in 2012. [ 4 ]
T. List of covers of Time magazine (1920s) List of covers of Time magazine (1930s) List of covers of Time magazine (1940s) List of covers of Time magazine (1950s)
Britannica acquired Merriam-Webster in 1964 and Compton's Encyclopedia as well in the early 1960s. [3] [4] Benton died in 1973, before the fifteenth edition was published in 1974. The newly titled Britannica 3 was composed of a ten-volume Micropædia, a 19-volume Macropædia and a one-volume guide to the encyclopædia's use, called Propædia.
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).
The most massive encyclopedia of the Middle Ages was Speculum Maius (The Great Mirror) by Vincent of Beauvais. It was 80 books long and was completed in 1244. With a total of 4.5 million words, the work is presumably the product of an anonymous team. [44] (By comparison, the current edition of Britannica has 44 million words. [45]) It was ...
Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition First page of the Encyclopædia Britannica, Eleventh Edition Language British English Release number 11 Subject General Publisher Horace Everett Hooper Publication date 1910–1911 Publication place United States Media type Print and digital Preceded by Encyclopædia Britannica Tenth Edition Followed by Encyclopædia Britannica Twelfth Edition ...
The first two pamphlets ("numbers") of the Encyclopædia Britannica were issued in December 1768, being sold from the printing office of its originator, Colin Macfarquhar, in Nicholson Street in Edinburgh. In 1968, several celebrations of the Britannica's bicentennial were held, and the three volumes of the 1st edition were reprinted in facsimile.