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The Encyclopædia Britannica and the Spirit of Enlightenment

The Encyclopædia Britannica and the Spirit of Enlightenment

Harald Sack
On December 6, 1768, the first volume of the first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica was published in London as , ‘A Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, compiled upon a New Plan‘. The Britannica is the oldest English-language encyclopaedia still being produced today. The history of its 15 editions alone would be subject of an entire book. But although it might be the most popular encyclopaedia ever printed, it was not the…
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All the World’s Knowledge – Wikipedia

All the World’s Knowledge – Wikipedia

Harald Sack
On January 15, 2001, the online encyclopedia Wikipedia was officially launched by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. Wikipedia‘s 55,001,389 articles in 325+ languages, including more than 6 million articles in the English Wikipedia (as of January 2022 [10]), are written collaboratively by volunteers around the world. It is the largest and most popular general reference work on the Internet. Encyclopedias from the Print to the Web Do you remember how life was before there was…
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