Edinburgh Encyclopedia

The Edinburgh Encyclopedia was an encyclopedia in 18 volumes, printed and published by William Blackwood and edited by David Brewster between 1808 and 1830. In competition with the Edinburgh-published Encyclopaedia Britannica,^[1] the Edinburgh Encyclopaedia is generally considered to be strongest on scientific topics, where many of the articles were written by the editor.^[2]

Other contributors - "Gentlemen Eminent in Science and Literature" - included Adam Anderson, Charles Babbage, Thomas Carlyle,^[3] Robert Gordon, Robert Edmond Grant,^[4] John Leslie,^[5] Henry Liston, John Gibson Lockhart^[3] and Thomas Telford.

In 1815 William Elford Leach published the first bibliography of entomology in Brewster's Edinburgh Encyclopedia (see Timeline of entomology – 1800–1850).

References

1. ^ Yeo, Richard (1999). Yeo, Richard. ed. Edinburgh Encyclopedia. Taylor and Francis. ISBN 9780415180269. http://books.google.com/books?id=KfRxRAAACAAJ&dq=isbn:0415180260&hl=en&ei=js9ATpPnAY3esgbt0ZDbBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAg. 
2. ^ Encyclopaedia Britannica (10 ed.). 1902. http://www.1902encyclopedia.com/B/BRE/david-brewster.html. 
3. ^ ^{a b} The Literary gazette: A weekly journal of literature, science, and the fine arts. 17. H. Colburn. 1833. 
4. ^ Desmond, Adrian; Parker, Sarah E. (October 2006). The bibliography of Robert Edmond Grant (1793–1874). Archives of Natural History. 33. 
5. ^ O'Connor, J J; Robertson, E F. "John Leslie". School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews. http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Leslie.html. Retrieved 9 August 2011. 

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