{"id":687,"date":"2012-09-02T01:49:06","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T01:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ups.edu\/125books\/?p=687"},"modified":"2012-09-02T01:49:06","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T01:49:06","slug":"year-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/2012\/09\/02\/year-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 23"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/07\/web_Encyclopedia1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-688\" style=\"margin-left: 5px;margin-right: 5px\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/07\/web_Encyclopedia1-56x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"56\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/07\/web_Encyclopedia1-56x300.jpg 56w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/07\/web_Encyclopedia1.jpg 131w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 56px) 100vw, 56px\" \/><\/a>1910: <strong>Encyclopaedia Britannica<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h4>Author\/Editor:<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"simon.ups.edu\/record=b1214660~S0\" target=\"_blank\">Find it in Collins Library!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 11<sup>th<\/sup> edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica is one of the best known, highest quality general encyclopedias ever published. It\u2019s a little hard to imagine the significance this book set would have had from our vantage point of near-instant access to most general information and much specialist information, but it\u2019s worth a try to get a sense of how important this type of work was.<\/p>\n<p>This edition in particular is widely known because of the number of well-known scholars and thinkers who wrote articles, including Edmund Gosse (who you\u2019ll see later in this blog series!), Algernon Charles Swinburne, John Muir, T.H. Huxley, Ernest Rutherford, and Bertrand Russell.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0 11<sup>th<\/sup> edition is very much a product of its time. For a window into the past, you can browse it in our collection, and online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/ebooks\/200\">Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia<\/a>. Why the different name? Well, the 11<sup>th<\/sup> edition\u2019s content is in the public domain, but the trademark of Britannica is still active; hence the name change when it went up online.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/07\/web_Encyclopedia3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-690\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/07\/web_Encyclopedia3-300x157.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/07\/web_Encyclopedia3-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/07\/web_Encyclopedia3-624x328.jpg 624w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/07\/web_Encyclopedia3.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 248px) 100vw, 248px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/07\/web_Encyclopedia2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-689\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/07\/web_Encyclopedia2-300x162.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"242\" height=\"130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/07\/web_Encyclopedia2-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/07\/web_Encyclopedia2-624x338.jpg 624w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/07\/web_Encyclopedia2.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1910: Encyclopaedia Britannica Author\/Editor: Find it in Collins Library! The 11th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica is one of the best known, highest quality general encyclopedias ever published. It\u2019s a little hard to imagine the significance this book set would have had from our vantage point of near-instant access to most general information and much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1908-1917"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}