An old Encyclopaedia Britannica is a work to cherish

Re:An old Encyclopaedia Britannica is a work to cherish by 5555624 on Saturday October 01, 2022 @02:31PM (#33048797)

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.)

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Re:An old Encyclopaedia Britannica is a work to cherish by nateburke on Saturday October 01, 2022 @03:39PM (#33049358)

I 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.

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Re:An old Encyclopaedia Britannica is a work to cherish by zozbot234 on Sunday October 02, 2022 @03:03AM (#33053626)

> 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.

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Re:An old Encyclopaedia Britannica is a work to cherish by conception on Sunday October 02, 2022 @11:54AM (#33057021)

>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.

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Re:An old Encyclopaedia Britannica is a work to cherish by hungryforcodes on Sunday October 02, 2022 @01:56PM (#33058452)

Wooosh. The quote from Episode IV totally eluded you, huh?

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Re:An old Encyclopaedia Britannica is a work to cherish by 5555624 on Sunday October 02, 2022 @09:49AM (#33055845)

At the time I picked it up, I couldn't find the 11th edition. The 13th edition adds three additional volumes, 29, 30, and 31.

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