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[00:00.06]Far from being the school swot,Lucian,who spends his evenings watching The Simpsons and chatting on the internet,
[00:07.85]made the discoveries thanks to his interest in his Polish roots.
[00:11.74]His mother,Elizabeth,is Polish and every year he spends a month on a farm in Yamy,southwest Poland.
[00:20.02]"He has always been fascinated by Polish history. “
[00:23.65]On the farm he has long chats with his 90-year-old great grandmother about how she survived the pogroms of the Nazis."
[00:31.72]10 days ago, the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 10
[00:35.59]which was first issued by the Society of Gentlemen in Scotland between 1768 and 1777 in Edinburgh,wrote to Lucian.
[00:46.40]Anita Wolff, the senior editor,thanked him for pointing out several errors and misleading statements 《
[00:53.47]and promised that a geography editor was working on a major revision of our Poland coverage
[01:00.01]and would make the changes as requested.
[01:02.22]In spite of the mistakes,Lucian said he still considered the encyclopaedia to be the single best source of information.
[01:09.95]The errors,too,while serious,were arguably less egregious than one in the first volume,which declared California to be an island.
[01:20.61]The Encyclopaedia Britannica was founded in 1768 in Edinburgh by Colin Macfarquhar,a printer,and Andrew Bell,an engraver,1768
[01:31.26]with the first edition published one section at a time over a three-year period.