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I've got the 13th edition (1926). What's great about the older editions is discovering that "real" experts contributed to the encyclopaedia. (For example, Alber
by 5555624 4y ago
I've got the 13th edition (1926). What's great about the older editions is discovering that "real" experts contributed to the encyclopaedia. (For example, Albert Einstein writing about Space-Time, Sigmund Freud writing about the Freudian School of Psychoanalysis.)
- nateburke 4y agoI grew up with a 1943 edition of encyclopedia Britannica in the house. I can remember looking at the maps volume and seeing no highways in the United States, only railroads. It also included an EXHAUSTIVE article about Mormons that I used for a school paper one time. You could really tell that the authors of the articles CARED.
- zozbot234 4y ago> I've got the 13th edition (1926). An amazing relic from a more civilized age. Though the 1911 edition is often regarded as the absolute best.
- 5555624 4y agoAt the time I picked it up, I couldn't find the 11th edition. The 13th edition adds three additional volumes, 29, 30, and 31.
- conception 4y ago>A more civilized age Perhaps if you were a rich, white man interacting with another rich white man. In no other context does this seem true.
- hungryforcodes 4y agoWooosh. The quote from Episode IV totally eluded you, huh?