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Colin Macfarquhar was a Scottish printer, who, with Andrew Bell, founded the Encyclopædia Britannica in 1768. A printer in Edinburgh and presumably the printer of the Britannica—for the first edition is stated to have been sold at his printing office in Nicolson Street—Macfarquhar remains an
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Colin Macfarquhar. Colin Macfarquhar (1744 or 1745? – 2 April 1793 or May 1793, Edinburgh?, Scotland) [1] [2] was a Scottish bookseller and printer who is most known for co-founding Encyclopædia Britannica with Andrew Bell, first published in December 1768. [3] [4] The dates of his birth and death remain uncertain, even to Britannica itself.
The Encyclopædia Britannica First Edition (1768–1771) is a 3-volume reference work, an edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. It was developed during the encyclopaedia's earliest period as a two-man operation founded by Colin Macfarquhar and Andrew Bell, in Edinburgh, Scotland, and was sold unbound in subscription format over a period of 3 ...
The Britannica was the idea of Colin Macfarquhar, a bookseller and printer, and Andrew Bell, an engraver, both of Edinburgh. They conceived of the Britannica as a conservative reaction to the French Encyclopédie of Denis Diderot (published 1751–1766), which was widely viewed as heretical.
Oct 6, 2022 · Thanks to the National Library of Scotland, you can view a rare first edition of the encyclopedia online. The first edition was the brainchild of printer Colin Macfarquhar, engraver Andrew Bell ...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica is the oldest English-language general encyclopedia. The Encyclopaedia Britannica was first published in 1768, when it began to appear in Edinburgh, and its first digital version debuted in 1981. In 1994 Britannica released the first Internet-based encyclopedia, and Britannica.com was launched in 1999. Britannica relies on outside experts and its own editors to write ...
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Mar 23, 2023 · The brainchild of William Smellie, a recovering alcoholic and polymath Presbyterian; Colin Macfarquhar, a printer; and Andrew Bell, an engraver endowed with a famously large nose, it became the ...
