Darwin and Einstein
Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 3:39 pm
You might have noticed that Ph.D. Henri M. Day is rather silent these days. I don't think I break any confidence in telling you that he has problems with Internet access, having recently moved to Stockholm, still waiting for his own connections to be established, and he is, together with a Czech professor, very busy on a project on not too modern Chinese dictionaries.
I'm quite busy as well, although with far less prestigious things, so I can't devote much time to searching the Net (if the answers are there).
Here is what he would like to know (in my translation/interpretation):
The main question is, when are, for the first time, the terms "Darwin" and "evolution" found as main entries in major English dictionaries, or, to reduce the search scope, when do they first appear in the Encyclopaedia Britannica (and in which edition)?
A second level priority is the same data on "Einstein" and "theory of relativity".
The reason is that he wants to know how up to date those dictionaries were.
He will surely appreciate any input on these matters.
I'm quite busy as well, although with far less prestigious things, so I can't devote much time to searching the Net (if the answers are there).
Here is what he would like to know (in my translation/interpretation):
The main question is, when are, for the first time, the terms "Darwin" and "evolution" found as main entries in major English dictionaries, or, to reduce the search scope, when do they first appear in the Encyclopaedia Britannica (and in which edition)?
A second level priority is the same data on "Einstein" and "theory of relativity".
The reason is that he wants to know how up to date those dictionaries were.
He will surely appreciate any input on these matters.