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Unlike the 15th edition, it did not contain Macro-and Micropædia sections, but ran A through Z as all editions up through the 14th had. The following is Britannica 's description of the work: [11] The editors of Encyclopædia Britannica, the world standard in reference since 1768, present the Britannica Global Edition.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 15th edition. The one-volume Propædia is the first of three parts of the 15th edition of Encyclopædia Britannica, intended as a compendium and topical organization of the 12-volume Micropædia and the 17-volume Macropædia, which are organized alphabetically.
Advertisement for Encyclopædia Britannica, 1913. The Encyclopædia Britannica has been published continuously since 1768, appearing in fifteen official editions. Several editions have been amended with multi-volume "supplements" (third, fifth/sixth), consisted of previous editions with added supplements (10th, and 12th/13th) or gone drastic re-organizations (15th).
The 12-volume Micropædia is one of the three parts of the 15th edition of Encyclopædia Britannica, the other two being the one-volume Propædia and the 17-volume Macropædia. [1] The name Micropædia is a neologism coined by Mortimer J. Adler from the ancient Greek words for "small" and "instruction"; the best English translation is perhaps ...
The Macropædia was introduced in the 15th edition (1974) with 19 volumes having 4,207 articles. In the drastic reorganization of that edition in 1985, these articles were combined and condensed into 17 volumes with roughly 700 articles, ranging in length from 2 to 310 pages.
Encyclopædia Britannica, 15th edition, article Hooper, Horace Everett. Anon, The History of the Times, vol 3,1947, pp 443–449 (portrait of Hooper facing p 444) Denis Boyles, Everything Explained That Is Explainable: On the Creation of the Encyclopaedia Britannica's Celebrated Eleventh Edition, 1910-1911, 2016. Hooper is a prominent figure ...