Given its roughly constant size, the encyclopaedia has needed to reduce or eliminate some topics to accommodate others, resulting in controversial decisions.

The Britannica generally prefers British spelling over American ; for example, it uses colour ( not color ), centre ( not center ), and encyclopaedia ( not encyclopedia ).

His encyclopaedia Pseudodoxia Epidemica ( 1646 – 76 ) includes numerous examples of Baconian investigative methodology ; its preface even paraphrases lines from Bacon's essay On Truth from his 1605 work The Advancement of Learning.

* Pauly-Wissowa ( comprehensive encyclopaedia on Antiquity ; in German ).

" " His book ," Mill continued, " is a kind of encyclopaedia of the thoughts of the ancients on the whole field of education and culture ; and I have retained through life many valuable ideas which I can distinctly trace to my reading of him ..."

In his infamous essay attacking detective fiction, Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd, American critic Edmund Wilson decried this novel as dull, overlong and far too detailed ; describing how he skipped a lot of the prose about bell-ringing ( quote: " a lot of information of the kind that you might expect to find in an encyclopaedia article on campanology "), and also large amounts of Sayers ' focal sleuth character, " the embarrassingly named " Lord Peter Wimsey.

; Sports and general encyclopaedia

The book is considered the closest to an encyclopaedia of medieval saint lore that survives today ; as such it is invaluable to art historians and medievalists who seek to identify saints depicted in art by their deeds and attributes.

The encyclopedia is sometimes considered the first modern one in the German language ; at the time, it was the largest printed encyclopaedia in the western hemisphere.

Most of the biographical material comes from four sources: two are texts entitled Life of Apollonius found in the scholia on his work ( Vitae A and B ); a third is an entry in the 10th-century encyclopaedia the Suda ; and fourthly a 2nd-century BCE papyrus, P. Oxy.

Paul Wild was a knowledgeable classical music lover, enjoying Beethoven in particular ; an expert at < i > The Times </ i > crossword puzzles, chess and bridge ; a railway enthusiast ; a social cricketer and a " walking encyclopaedia of cricket knowledge ".

* Encyclopædia Iranica ( 30-volume encyclopaedia of Iran's culture ; edited and published by Columbia University & funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities )

Of his numerous writings, the most important are Unterricht von der deutschen Sprache und Poesie ( 1682 ), the first attempt in Germany at a systematic survey of European literature, and Polyhistor, sive de auctorum notitia et rerum commentarii ( Lübeck, 1688, not completed till 1707 ; 4th ed., 1747 ), a kind of encyclopaedia of the knowledge and learning of his time.

Despite advanced lung cancer he corrected the final proofs for his latest encyclopaedia and went to Bath to inspect the site for another cemetery ; and then to Oxford to see a client.

* The Great Harmonia ( 1850 – 1861 ), an encyclopaedia in six volumes ;

The Genealogia deorum is, as A. H. Heeren said, an encyclopaedia of mythological knowledge ; and it was the precursor of the humanist movement of the 15th century.

' Encyclopédie internationale des photographes / Photographers encyclopaedia international: index ' ( Paris: Maison européenne de la photographie ; Hermance, Switzerland: Camera Obscura, 1992 ).

The second and subsequent editions of the encyclopaedia took the name of the said Earl of Halsbury.

In March 2012, Britannica's president, Jorge Cauz, announced that it would not produce any new print editions of the encyclopaedia, with the 2010 15th edition being the last.

When American physicist Harvey Einbinder detailed its failings in his 1964 book, The Myth of the Britannica, the encyclopaedia was provoked to produce the 15th edition, which required 10 years of work.

The published edition of the encyclopaedia will not be affected by the changes.

Nevertheless, from the 9th edition onwards, the Britannica was widely considered to have the greatest authority of any general English language encyclopaedia, especially because of its broad coverage and eminent authors.

A page from a 16th-century edition of the 10th century Byzantine encyclopaedia of the ancient Mediterranean world, the Suda.

The Alphabeticall Table ( an index ) to the 1658 edition of Sir Thomas Browne's encyclopaedia Pseudodoxia Epidemica includes the entry, ' Philosopher's Stone, not impossible to be procured '.

Each edition features an atlas, a gazetteer, a list of prominent people ( past and present ), a miniature encyclopaedia of general information, and a chronological list of events.

A page from a 16th-century edition of the 10th century Byzantine encyclopaedia of the ancient Mediterranean world, the Suda.

Just like the very first, this final Mannheim edition was the most comprehensive German encyclopaedia of the century.

He became an avid player and follower of cricket while at school and into adulthood: in his later life he was known as " a walking encyclopaedia of cricket knowledge ", eventually owning all but one edition of < i > Wisden Cricketers ' Almanack </ i >.

The first edition of the encyclopaedia was complied over a fourteen year period by Ben Weinreb and latterly by Christopher Hibbert, and published by Macmillan.

A useful example is provided by the Suda, a 10th century Byzantine encyclopaedia, here reproduced in an English translation from a Loeb edition.

A page from a 16th-century edition of the vast Byzantine encyclopaedia, the Suda.

The word encyclopaedia comes from the Koine Greek ἐγκυκλοπαιδεία, from Greek, transliterated enkyklios paideia, meaning " general education ": enkyklios ( ἐγκύκλιος ), meaning " circular, recurrent, required regularly, general " + paideia ( παιδεία ), meaning " education, rearing of a child ", but it was reduced to a single word due to an error by copyists of Latin manuscripts.

The term encyclopaedia was coined by 15th century humanists who misread copies of their texts of Pliny and Quintilian, and combined the two Greek words " enkyklios paideia " into one word.

The peak year for the printed encyclopaedia was 1990 when 120, 000 sets were sold, but it dropped to 40, 000 in 1996.

On 20 February 2007, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. announced that it was working with mobile phone search company AskMeNow to launch a mobile encyclopaedia.

In its first years, the Britannicas main competitor was the general encyclopaedia of Ephraim Chambers and, soon thereafter, Rees's Cyclopædia and Coleridge's Encyclopaedia Metropolitana.

The most notable competitor of the Britannica among CD / DVD-ROM digital encyclopaedias was Encarta, now discontinued, a modern, multimedia encyclopaedia that incorporated three print encyclopaedias: Funk & Wagnalls, Collier's and the New Merit Scholar.

Encarta was the top-selling multimedia encyclopaedia, based on total US retail sales from January 2000 to February 2006.

New Grove encyclopaedia states that Fredigundis was a critical and popular failure, which may be partly attributable to the fact that Fredigundis ( Fredegund ), the widow of Chilperic I ), is presented as a murderous and sadistic feminine monster.

The project was influenced by the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia, and its content included annotations from Stephenson himself.

According to the Byzantine encyclopaedia, Suda: " He was born in the 56th Olympiad ( 556 / 552 BC ) or according to some writers in the 62nd ( 532 / 528 ) and he survived until the 78th ( 468 / 464 ), having lived eighty-nine years.

According to Athenaeus, he was small, thin and surprisingly strong The Byzantine encyclopaedia Suda, recorded that he was expelled from Ephesus by the tyrants Athenagoras and Comas, then settled in Clazomenae, and that he wrote verses satirising Bupalis and Athenis because they made insulting likenesses of him.

It was one of the world's earliest, and the then largest, encyclopaedia commissioned by Emperor Yongle of Ming Dynasty in 1403, completed about 1408.

The last, a theological encyclopaedia, was published in 1549, but the last but one, intended to include his medical work, was never finished.

Berlioz called the score " a musical encyclopaedia ", and the singing, especially of Nourrit and Falcon, was universally praised.

His teaching salary was not sufficient to finance this, so he spent the summer of 1904 selling a one volume encyclopaedia in the newly-settled areas around Rapid City, Manitoba.

Though successfully introduced into the encyclopaedia, Esrum-Hellerup appeared in the first printing only: soon exposed as a hoax, the entry was removed and the space filled with an illustration.

Though successfully introduced into the encyclopaedia, Baldini appeared in the first printing only: soon exposed as a hoax, the entry was removed.

The work includes evidence of Browne's adherence to the Baconian method of empirical observation of nature, and was in the vanguard of work-in-progress scientific journalism in the 17th century scientific revolution, though he refers to his work as an encyclopaedia.

It was the first encyclopaedia to include biographies of living people.