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The term "world-building" was first used in the ''[[Edinburgh Review]]'' in December 1820<ref>{{Cite OED | World}}</ref> and appeared in [[Arthur Eddington]]'s ''Space Time and Gravitation: An Outline of the General Relativity Theory'' (1920) to describe the thinking out of hypothetical worlds with different physical laws.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Eddington |first=Arthur Stanley |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/905652391 |title=Space, Time, and Gravitation: An Outline of the General Relativity Theory |date=2014 |publisher=Wildside Press |isbn=978-1-4344-0450-3 |oclc=905652391}}</ref>{{rp|160}} The term has been used in [[science fiction]] and fantasy criticism since appearing in R.A. Lupoff's ''Edgar Rice Burroughs: Master of Adventure'' (1965).<ref name=prucher2007/>{{rp|270}}