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The encyclopedia was founded by Frank E. Compton in 1922. Publishing rights to the F.E. Compton & Company products were acquired by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. in 1961. [1] Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. initially owned Compton's Encyclopedia from 1961 to 1993, and later reacquired it in 2002.
The Britannica was first published in Edinburgh, Scotland, in three volumes, with printer William Smellie serving as its principal editor. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] By 1988, the encyclopedia grew to consist of 32 volumes in total, [ 2 ] but later stopped printing physical copies to focus on the online edition in 2012. [ 4 ]
The Britannica of this period was primarily a Scottish enterprise, and it is one of the most enduring legacies of the Scottish Enlightenment. [15] In this era, the Britannica moved from being a three-volume set (1st edition) compiled by one young editor—William Smellie [16] —to a 20-volume set written by numerous authorities. [17]
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Roman Britain. Map from 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. A partial list of Roman place names in Great Britain. [1]This list includes only names documented from Roman times. For a more complete list including later Latin names, see List of Latin place names in Brit
The following list comprises the 699 Macropædia articles of the 2007 Encyclopædia Britannica, the flagship articles upon which Britannica's reputation rests.If Wikipedia could produce articles on these topics of comparable or better quality than those of the EB, there could be no doubt about Wikipedia's scope and stature as an encyclopedia.
The volumes of the Encyclopædia Britannica.The Macropædia is the set of volumes 13 to 29, with single colour spines.. The 17-volume Macropædia is the third part of the Encyclopædia Britannica; the other two parts are the 12-volume Micropædia and the one-volume Propædia.