The great majority of African Americans descend from slaves brought in directly from Africa, or, more often, from the Caribbean. These slaves descended from prisoners of war captured by African states ...
The term Bioethics (Greek bios, life; ethos, behavior) was coined in 1926 by Fritz Jahr, who "anticipated many of the arguments and discussions now current in biological research involving animals" in ...
Isaac Kaufmann Funk founded the business in 1875 as I.K. Funk Company. In 1877, Adam Willis Wagnalls, one of Funk's classmates at Wittenberg College (now Wittenberg University), joined the firm as a ...
Over the years the World Book has been characterized by its design. Unlike most other encyclopedias, it is traditionally published in variously sized volumes, depending on the letter of the alphabet. ...
The encyclop?dia was originally published in fortnightly parts between March 1908 and February 1910. Some readers could have bound their collections, but the first eight-volume sets were published in ...
Editions 1920-22 was initially published as a fortnightly series in 1920-22 and sold twelve million copies throughout the English-speaking world.The subscriber could have the fortnightly magazines bou ...
Lexicon Technicum: Or, An Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: Explaining not only the Terms of Art, but the Arts Themselves was in many respects the first alphabetical encyclopedia writ ...
In 1808, the rights to the publication were bought by Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus, who paid 1,800 thalers.Full print editions Title page of the 2nd edition (1812)Brockhaus advertising at the Frankfurt ...
Born in Paris, d'Alembert was the illegitimate child of the writer Claudine Guérin de Tencin and the chevalier Louis-Camus Destouches, an artillery officer. Destouches was abroad at the time of d'Ale ...
The Encyclopédie was originally conceived as a French translation of Ephraim Chambers's Cyclopaedia (1728). In 1743, the translation was entrusted by the Parisian book publisher André Le Breton to J ...
The first edition included numerous cross-references meant to connect articles scattered by the use of alphabetical order, a dedication to the King, George II, and a philosophical preface at the begin ...
Chambers was born in Kendal, Westmorland, England, and attended Heversham Grammar School there. Little is known of his early life, other than that he was apprenticed to a globe maker, John Senex, in L ...
Pseudodoxia Epidemica was a valuable source of information which found itself upon the shelves of many homes in seventeenth century England. Being in the vanguard of the scientific writing, it paved t ...
The son of a silk merchant from Upton, Cheshire, he was born in the parish of St Michael, Cheapside, in London on 19 October 1605. His father died while he was still young and he was sent to school at ...
Having studied at Ingolstadt, Vienna, Cracow and Paris, he returned to Ingolstadt in 1507 and in 1509 was appointed tutor to Louis and Ernest, the two younger brothers of William IV, Duke of Bavaria, ...
