The History of the Encyclopedia: Pliny and Diderot to Voyager One and Wikipedia
February 7, 2018
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as posted by the channelIn this video, I look at the history of the encyclopedia and the biases that have underwritten the writings over time. Pliny the Elder is widely considered as the first encyclopedist, but the first modern encyclopedia was produced by Denis Diderot in the Eighteenth Century. We can see the links between these great old encyclopedias of knowledge and the displacement of the Encyclopedia Britannica by Wikipedia, and the new questions that have arisen out of the digitization of information in the information age. I also take a look at Voyager One and the contents of this interstellar encyclopedia.
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'Oxygen Garden' by Chris Zabriskie
'The Endless' by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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