The explainable

Signature has an interview with Denis Boyles about his new book on the eleventh edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, Everything Explained That Is Explainable.The title of Boyles’s book was one of the marketing slogans used to sell the encyclopediawhen itwent on sale in 1910 and 1911. In the interview, Boyles talks about how the monumental reference work was very much a reflection of its time:

Signature:It was a period of great change. The 11thwas essentially published in the heart of the...