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...Syntopticon, an index to EB's 54-volume Great Books of the Western World, catalogued everything of note the authors had to say about the 102 Great Ideas of Western Civilization. Adler divided the encyclopaedia into three separate parts, which he named with the pseudoclassic neologisms: the Propaedia, Macropaedia and Micropaedia (meaning before, great and little learning)-and called the complete 30-volume set Britannica...
...matter and energy, the earth, life on earth, human life, human society, art, technology, religion, the history of mankind, the branches of knowledge. Within the ten segments there are 42 divisions, 189 sections and 15,000 separate subjects-each of which is accompanied by references to the 19-volume Macropaedia, a browser's paradise of 4,207 major articles, biographies and geographical descriptions in the traditional alphabetical order. Thus, if a reader wants a detailed description of icebergs, for example, he looks in the Propaedia under Part Two-The Earth; then under Division II-The Earth's envelope...
Literate Articles. Macropaedia readers will still find the literate, initialed articles by world-renowned experts that are the Britannica's hallmark -but, say the editors, without the overlaps, omissions and inconsistencies of earlier editions. There is Arnold Toynbee on Julius Caesar and leading American Catholic Theologian John L. McKenzie on Roman Catholicism, English Embryologist Sir Gavin de Beer on evolution and Carl Sagan (see BOOKS) on the planets and extraterrestrial life. The late Sir Tyrone Guthrie writes about theater, Anthony Burgess examines the novel, Alan Lomax discusses singing, and Barnaby Conrad summarizes bullfighting. Although more than half the scholarly...
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