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In Encyclopædia Britannica: First edition
…Britannica consisted of including “treatises” on the arts (i.e., practical arts) and sciences in the same alphabetical series as short articles on technical terms and other subjects, with plentiful cross references from the one type of entry to the other. It was thus intended to satisfy two kinds of…
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In Encyclopædia Britannica: Third edition
The new treatises in the third edition included “Aerostation” (on balloon flights, treated in the supplement to the second edition), “Husbandry,” “Logarithms,” “Polytheism,” and (in the supplement) “Galvanism” (“the influence discovered nearly eight years ago by the celebrated Galvani”), and “Critical Philosophy” (i.e., Kant’s). Indexes were appended…
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