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Starting text is lightly edited from 1911 Brittanica.

...-Mountains/Geology Geology of the Appalachian Mountains] from Encyclopedia Brittanica online.

Took initially from Brittanica 1911, then found that that is largely taken from the preface to Maclaurin's

...d love to just open a volume and start reading. We have a 1926 version of Brittanica, and it's a lot of fun to look up 'rocket' and 'computer'!

:: Did you get to take a look at the Encyclopedia Brittanica? I haven't gotten complete access yet. --[[User:D. Matt Innis|D. Matt Inni

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...-Mountains/Geology Geology of the Appalachian Mountains] from Encyclopedia Brittanica online.

...e statement that 16 ounce make a pound (really!). Paper encyclopedias like Brittanica, Brockhaus, Larousse, Winkler-Prins, etc., rely on the expertise of the aut

...newtab">[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Theodor-Fontane Encyclopedia Brittanica on Theodor Fontane]</span>, last access 12/1/2020.</ref>. Several of these

...nergy Brittanica] has to say about energy. (Personally, I don't agree with Brittanica's statement ''All forms of energy are associated with motion''; Milton stat ...energy <-> force''. I checked a few more books and the 15th edition of the Brittanica. They all assume the concept "work" to be known by the reader). The second

==1911 Brittanica material==

...les written by [[Geoffrey Chaucer]] between 1387 and 1400<ref>Encyclopedia Brittanica (online) https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Canterbury-Tales, last access

...ough it is less comprehensive in its scope (trade-offs). The Encyclopedia Brittanica has a lede which is a model of clarity that all other dictionaries could le

...a later section? The latter makes me cringe. Would say "the Encyclopedia Brittanica"? Or "the Newsweek"? I didn't try to edit this page since I would expect i

I'm pretty sure that I added a quote from the Brittanica to [[talk:Oxygen]] yesterday (about the chemical engineer Carl von Linde).

* Is Outhgill in Yorkshire? (I saw two editions of Brittanica, both state that Faraday sr. came from Yorkshire, but fact is too unimporta

...i is used by a variety of other projects, and it's worth talking about the Brittanica-vs.-Wikipedia study; it's also worth mentioning some of the controversies (

...quantity and the quality has gone nowhere. Comparisons with Encyclopaedia Brittanica make it look good but every issue of EB is limited by publication dates and

...e the capability to have the page ''text'' say the exact same thing as the Brittanica entries - it's just that there will be the extra 'page name' prominently di ...supposition about "internal article names" was slap on. I just noticed you Brittanica links above, and Britannica's true 'page name' for the article about Charle

...aragraph as though it was an uncontested fact is POV and unacceptable. The Brittanica gets around that by prefacing its description with the phrase "In Christian