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History of Science & Technology Q&A (April 20, 2022)

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

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The Origins of Encyclopedias

The whole world of encyclopedias had been started by people like Dalombehr in the 1700s. encyclopedia Britannica was founded in Edinburgh, when was that? The 1911 one was particularly famous because it's one where the editors got lots of people like Einstein and so on to write articles about things.

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