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Presumably illegally, “The Deep Butter Index” links to a copy of Encyclopædia Britannica’s Touch the Sky, Touch the Universe in RAR format.

Those that prefer a legal copy can find it in the Minds on Science and Technology CD Pack, together with two other titles: My Body, Myself and The Wonderful Language of Nature.

theshadowboxer has posted an artfully composed photograph of the Britannica Centre. As he notes, soon this building will be converting to condos and will be known as the Straus building (once again).

At Over The Sea Sartorias quotes a quirky defintion of “Novel” from the 1771 edition of Encyclopædia Britannica:

NOVEL, in matters of literature, a fictitious history of a series of entertaining events in common life, wherein the rules of probability are or ought to be strictly observed.

The modern Britannica article on Novel describes the term as:

NOVEL, an invented prose narrative of considerable length and a certain complexity that deals imaginatively with human experience, usually through a connected sequence of events involving a group of persons in a specific setting.

While the modern description is more complete, I quite like the expression “a fictitious history of a series of entertaining events in common life”.