The Edinburgh Encyclopædia is an encyclopaedia in 18 volumes, printed and published by William Blackwood and edited by David Brewster between 1808 and 1830. In competition with the Edinburgh-published Encyclopædia Britannica,[1] the Edinburgh Encyclopædia is generally considered to be strongest on scientific topics, where many of the articles were written by the editor.[2]
The Edinburgh Encyclopædia was originally planned to encompassed 12 volumes, but by the time the final volume was published, in 1830, it counted 18 volumes. Some subjects, such as the polarization of light and electromagnetism, had not even been heard of when the project began, and yet the Encyclopedia had articles on them. The electromagnetism article was even contributed by Hans Christian Ørsted, the founder of modern electromagnetic studies. It also included information on contemporary events such as Christopher Hansteen's 1829 expedition to Siberia.[3]
Alexander Galloway; (wrote the "Perspective" article, and was an acquaintance of Thomas Carlyle)[11]
James Geddes
Patrick Gibson
Charles Giesecke
John Gordon
Robert Gordon
James Grahame
Robert Grant
James Grierson
John Gunn
George Harvey
William Jory Henwood
J. F. W. Herschel[9]("Isoperimetrical Problems", "Mathematics")
Samuel Hibbert
John Hodgson
James Innes
David Irving
Alexander Irvine
Josiah Kirby
Robert Kirkwood
Thomas Jackson
Robert Jameson
John Jamieson
George Kellie
Robert Kerr
William Laidlaw
Dionysius Lardner
William Leach
John Lee
John Leslie
Henry Liston
John Lizars
J. G. Lockhart
John Loudon
Joseph Lowe
Robert Lundie
Robert Lyall
A. Macarthur
Charles Mackenzie
George Mackenzie
James Macdonald
Archduke Maximilian
Mr. Maclaurin
J. R. MacCulloch
John MacCulloch
William Memes
J. Morell
Walter Morison
Lockhart Muirhead
William Muller
John Murray
Hugh Murray
Thomas Murray
Andrew Mylne
John Narien
James Nicol
Patrick Neill
Peter Nicholson
Alexander Nimmo
Hans Christian Ørsted
George Peacock
William Pearson
Alexander Peterkin
John Pond
Richard Poole (wrote on "Language", "Mind", "Philology" and "Philosophy")[12]
William Percivall
John Ramsay
William Ramsay
Thomas Reid
William Ritchie
Abraham Robertson
John Robison
William Scoresby
Alexander Scott
John Corse Scott
Robert Eden Scott
James Simpson
Rev. W. Singer
J. C. Simonde de Sismondi
James Skene
Thomas Somerville
Robert Stevenson
William Stevenson, (the father of Elizabeth Gaskell; article "Chivalry"[13] out of a total of around 50)[14]
Andrew Mitchell Thomson, (part-owner)[15]
John Thomson
Thomas Traill
Rev. J. M. Turner
Edmund Turrel
William Tytler
Rev. W. Wade
Josiah Walker
William Wallace
James Watt
James Wilson
John Yule
References
^Brewster, David (1832). David Brewster (ed.). The Edinburgh encyclopædia conducted by David Brewster, with the assistance of gentlemen eminent in science and literature, Volume 18. J. and E. Parker. ISBN 978-0-415-18026-9.
^Encyclopædia Britannica (10 ed.). 1902.
^Robert Collison Encyclopedias: their history throughout the ages 2nd ed. New York and London; Haffner Publishing Company 1966 pp.175–6
^Sir David Brewster (1830). The Edinburgh Encyclopædia. Printed for W. Blackwood. pp. ix–xiv. Retrieved 28 April 2012.
^ a bThe Literary gazette: A weekly journal of literature, science, and the fine arts. 17. H. Colburn. 1833.
^Desmond, Adrian; Parker, Sarah E. (October 2006). The bibliography of Robert Edmond Grant (1793–1874). Archives of Natural History. 33.
^O'Connor, J J; Robertson, E F. "John Leslie". School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews. Retrieved 9 August 2011.
^Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1885). "Annesley, Alexander" . Dictionary of National Biography. 2. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
^ a bMartha McMackin Garland (1980). Cambridge Before Darwin: The Idéal of Alihsral Education, 1800-1860. Cambridge University Press. p. 191. ISBN 978-0-521-23319-4. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
^Georg Lehner (2011), China in European Encyclopaedias, 1700-1850, Leiden: Koninklijke Brill, ISBN 9789004201507
^"Letters, TC to Alexander Galloway; 25 December 1821; DOI: 10.1215/lt-18211225-TC-AGA-01; CL 1: 419". Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 3 May 2012.
^John Bulloch, John Alexander Henderson (editors), Scottish Notes and Queries (1888), p. 40; archive.org.
^"Stevenson, William (1772-1829)" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
^Chapple, John A. V. "Stevenson, William". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/26443. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^Lee, Sidney, ed. (1898). "Thomson, Andrew Mitchell" . Dictionary of National Biography. 56. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
Further reading
The following full set of the Scottish printing may be read online here. It does not include any plates.
v.1 A to Anatomy – 4 parts, 1808, 851pp + list of plates.
v.2 Comparative Anatomy to Astronomy – 3 parts, 1810, 836pp + list of plates.
v.3 Astrophanometer to Bosworth – 3 parts, 1810 & 1811, 776pp + list of plates.
v.4 Botany to Browne – 2 parts, 1811 & 1812, 760 pp + list of plates.
v.5 Brown to Cheltenham – 2 parts, 1812, 764 + list of plates.
v.6 Chemistry to Columbo – 2 parts, 1813, pp + list of plates.
v.7 Columbus to Dividing of Instruments – 2 parts, 1813 & 1814, 761 pp + list of plates.
v.8 Divination to England – 2 parts, 1814 & 1815, 761 pp + list of plates.
v.9 England to Fruit – 2 parts, 1815, 764 pp + list of plates.
v.10 Fuci to Herodotus – 2 parts, 1816, 757 pp + list of plates.
v.11 Herpetology to Ilay – 2 parts, 1817, pp + list of plates.
v.12 Ilchester to Light – 2 parts, 1817 & 1818, 746 pp + list of plates.
v.13 Lighthouse to Medicine – 2 parts, 1818 & 1819, 739 pp + list of plates.
v.14 Medicine to Muscat – 2 parts, 1820, pp 743 + list of plates.
v 15 Musci to Organic Remains – 2 parts, 1821 & 1822, 756 pp + list of plates.
v 16 Orissa to Poland – 2 parts, 1823, 738 pp + list of plates.
v.17 Polar Regions to Scotland – 2 parts, 1825 & 1826, 679 pp + list of plates.
v.18 Sculpture to Zurich Machine – 2 parts, 1828 & 1830 847 pp + list of plates.
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