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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 ...
Pages in category "1768 non-fiction books" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. ... Encyclopædia Britannica First Edition;
The Britannica was first published between December 1768 [13] and 1771 in Edinburgh as the Encyclopædia Britannica, or, A Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, compiled upon a New Plan. In part, it was conceived in reaction to the French Encyclopédie of Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert (published 1751–1772), which had been inspired by ...
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).
Edited 1st edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, 1771-Editor, Edinburgh Magazine and Review, 1773-1776. Partner with William Creech, 1782-Known for: Editor of the Encyclopædia Britannica First Edition: Spouse: Jean Robertson (m. 1763) Parent(s) Alexander Smellie, architect, Edinburgh: Notes
Domestic Encyclopedia (1802) Kendal's Pocket Encyclopedia (1802, second edition 1811) Rees's Cyclopædia (1802–1819) Encyclopædia Perthensis (Perth, Scotland, 1803;1816) Encyclopædia Britannica (fourth edition, 1810; ninth edition by 1889) Edinburgh Encyclopædia (1808–1830) British Encyclopedia, or Dictionary of Arts and Sciences (1809)
Around 1765 William Hunter started collecting widely across a range of themes beyond medicine and anatomy: books, manuscripts, prints, coins, shells, zoological specimens, and minerals. In several of these areas, he worked closely with specialists, such as Johan Christian Fabricius , and George Fordyce who used his collections as tools for new ...
Colin Macfarquhar (1744/5 – 2 April 1793) [1] [2] was a Scottish bookseller and printer who is most known for co-founding Encyclopædia Britannica with Andrew Bell, first published in December 1768. [3] [4] The dates of his birth and death remain uncertain, even to Britannica itself. [1]