Baffin
2 of the 7 encyclopedias on this shelf carry an entry for Baffin. Both are reproduced below, so you can see where they agree and where they differ.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
WILLIAM, an English navigator and discoverer, believed to have been born in London about 1584; but the earliest known fact regarding him is that he sailed in 1612 as pilot of the "Patience" from Hull, on a voyage of discovery to Greenland. In 1613-1614 he served in the Spitzbergen whale fishery, and he wrote an account of this and his previous voyage. In 1615 he took serv- Disice with a company as pilot of the " covery," in search of a northwest passage Hudand made a careful examination of son Strait. His recorded latitudes and notes of the tides are in remarkable agreement with those of a later date. In the following year, with Capt. Bylot, he discovered, charted, and named Smith Sound, and several others, and explored now associated with his the large inlet name. Later investigation has confirmed his descriptions. His last voyages, 1616- 1621, were to the East. At the siege of Ormuz, which the English were helping the Shah of Persia to recover from the 1622. Portuguese, he was killed, Jan. 23, See "Voyages of William Baffin, 1612- 1622," edited by C. R. Markham (1880).
Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)
William, an English navigator and writer. The date of his birth is not known. He was killed in 1622 in a fight with the Portuguese on an island in the Persian Gulf. He was pilot of the "good ship Discovery," which, in 1615, tried to find the Northwest Passage. On his return, Baffin wrote an account of the voyage. The original manuscript is preserved in the British Museum . The "Discovery" was the earliest English ship to visit the broad expanse between Greenland and British America . The name of the navigator has been preserved in Baffin Bay and Baffin Land. 2026 Editor's Note: William Baffin's careful Arctic surveys were so far ahead of their time that later mapmakers doubted them and erased 'Baffin Bay' from charts — until 19th-century explorers proved him right. His name now marks Baffin Island , the fifth-largest island on earth, a vast Arctic realm of the Canadian territory of Nunavut. (Ed: BR 2026-06-08)