What was first published in Edinburgh between 1768 and 1771 thanks to the efforts of the 'Society of Gentlemen in Scotland'?
Encyclopædia Britannica First Edition who was offered 200 pounds sterling to produce the encyclopedia in 100 parts (called "numbers" and equivalent to thick pamphlets), which were later bound into three volumes. The first number appeared on 6 December 1768 in Edinburgh, priced sixpence or 8 pence on finer paper. The "Britannica" was published under the pseudonym "A Society of Gentlemen in Scotland", possibly referring to the many gentlemen who had bought subscriptions. By releasing the numbers in weekly installments, the "Britannica" was completed in 1771, having 2,391 pages. The numbers were bound in three equally sized volumes covering Aa–Bzo, Caaba–Lythrum, and Macao–Zyglophyllum; an estimated
Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh The Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh was a now defunct learned society which was based in Edinburgh, Scotland "for the cultivation of the physical sciences". The society was founded in 1771 as the Physico-Chirurgical Society but soon after changed its name to the Physical Society. After being granted a Royal Charter in 1778 it became the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh. It absorbed a number of other societies over the next fifty years, including the Edinburgh Medico-Chirurgical Society in 1782 (not to be confused with the modern Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh, founded in 1821), the