Word: syntopticon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Three Parts. The solution was provided by Britannica Editor and Author Mortimer Adler, founder-president of the Institute for Philosophical Research, a man who has never been intimidated by the task of organizing and compiling the total of human knowledge. His 1952 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...
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