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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
- ^ 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.
- ^ Encyclopaedia Britannica (10 ed.). 1902. http://www.1902encyclopedia.com/B/BRE/david-brewster.html.
- ^ a b The Literary gazette: A weekly journal of literature, science, and the fine arts. 17. H. Colburn. 1833.
- ^ Desmond, Adrian; Parker, Sarah E. (October 2006). The bibliography of Robert Edmond Grant (1793–1874). Archives of Natural History. 33.
- ^ 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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