The Scholar's Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica
The famous 9th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica has been nicknamed the "scholar's edition" due to superb quality of the articles and the high caliber of the contributors.
It was published in 1875 (and a supplement added in 1902), and it is still really worth reading!
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Some Famous Contributors to the 9th Edition Britannica
Do you recognize these names?
- Thomas Henry Huxley (wrote article "Evolution")
- Professor Thomas Huxley was of the great scientists of the Victorian period and a great defender of Darwinism.
- Amelia Edwards (wrote article "Mummy")
- Mrs. Amelia Edwards was a celebrated author, traveler and Egyptologist.
- Prof. James Frazer (wrote article "Taboo")
- Professor James G. Frazer was a pioneering anthropologist.
- Robert Louis Stevenson (wrote article "Beranger")
- Robert Louis Stevenson was a famous novelist to whom we owe "Treasure Island" and "Kidnapped".
African Elephant (in Britannica, 9th Edition)
Some Curious Articles from the Britannica, Ninth Edition
- Apparitions
- FROM THIS ARTICLE:
Ghosts are almost the first guess of the savage, almost the last infirmity of the civilized imagination; on these forms, shadowy and unsubstantial as they are, solid superstructures of ritual and morality have been based, and apparitions, with the consequences of the belief in them, have a literature and a history of their own. - Fairies
- FROM THIS ARTICLE:
Of all the minor creations of mythology, the fairies are the most beautiful, the most numerous, the most memorable in literature. - Sea Serpents
- FROM THIS ARTICLE:
The belief in enormous serpents, both terrestrial and marine, dates from very early times. - Vampire
- FROM THIS ARTICLE:
Peter Martyr (Anghiera), who wrote soon after the conquest of South America, says that in the Isthmus of Darien there were bats which sucked the blood of men and cattle when asleep to such a degree as to even kill them.
William Robertson Smith, theologian, orientalist, and Ninth Edition co-editor
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What They Say about the Britannica, Ninth Edition
- According to the Ninth
- "The 9th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica is the print apotheosis of the Victorian world view. It is not a dry work of reference, but is alive with opinion and personality. There are plenty of examples of Empire-minded bombast and slanted jingoism, but again and again the freshness and modernity of a contributor's insights leap out at the 21st century reader."
This blog has insightful and often humorous commentaries on articles from the 9th Edition of the Britannica.
Eminent Victorians
Sardonic look at some famous people in the era of the 9th Edition Britannica
Eminent Victorians (Oxford World's Classics)
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In this book, Florence Nightingale is not a gentle archangel descended from heaven to minister sweetly to wounded soldiers, but rather an exacting, dictatorial, and judgmental crusader. Her "pen, in the virulence of its volubility, would rush ... to the denunciation of an incompetent surgeon or the ridicule of a self-sufficient nurse. Her sarcasm searched the ranks of the officials with the deadly and unsparing precision of a machine-gun. Her nicknames were terrible. She respected no one."
Dr. Thomas Arnold, the man appointed to revamp the very private British public school system, fares little better: in Strachey's acid ink, he became "the founder of the worship of athletics and the worship of good form."
In this same vain, military hero General Gordon is portrayed as a temperamental, irascible hermit, occasionally drunk and often found in the company of young boys--a man who tended to forget and forgo the tenets found in the Bible he kept with him always.
And the powerful and popular Cardinal Manning, who came within a hair's breadth of succeeding Pope Pius IX, belonged, Strachey writes, "to that class of eminent ecclesiastics ... who have been distinguished less for saintliness and learning than for practical ability."
As he offered up indelible sketches of his less-than-fab four, Strachey was intent on critiquing established mores. This effortlessly superior wit knew full well that deep convictions and good deeds often go hand in hand with hypocrisy, arrogance, and egomania. His task was to pique those who pretended they did not.
Great Britain during the Victorian Era / 19th Century
What the world was like when the Britannica, 9th Edition was pubished
Victoria - British Empire during Victorian Era
Visual introduction to the expansion of the British Empire during Victoria's lifetime. Designed to be used with Year 9 students as an introduction to their study of the Empire.
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Another great lens!! Posted January 08, 2008 |
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