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Far from being the school swot,Lucian,who spends his evenings watching The Simpsons and chatting on the internet, |
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made the discoveries thanks to his interest in his Polish roots. |
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His mother,Elizabeth,is Polish and every year he spends a month on a farm in Yamy,southwest Poland. |
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"He has always been fascinated by Polish history. “ |
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On the farm he has long chats with his 90-year-old great grandmother about how she survived the pogroms of the Nazis." |
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10 days ago, the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 10 |
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which was first issued by the Society of Gentlemen in Scotland between 1768 and 1777 in Edinburgh,wrote to Lucian. |
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Anita Wolff, the senior editor,thanked him for pointing out several errors and misleading statements 《 |
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and promised that a geography editor was working on a major revision of our Poland coverage |
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and would make the changes as requested. |
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In spite of the mistakes,Lucian said he still considered the encyclopaedia to be the single best source of information. |
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The errors,too,while serious,were arguably less egregious than one in the first volume,which declared California to be an island. |
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The Encyclopaedia Britannica was founded in 1768 in Edinburgh by Colin Macfarquhar,a printer,and Andrew Bell,an engraver,1768 |
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with the first edition published one section at a time over a three-year period. |
