Encyclopædia Britannica it is scarcely used, and reviewers have recommended that it be dropped from the encyclopaedia. The also has color transparencies of human anatomy and several appendices listing the staff members, advisors, and contributors to all three parts of the Britannica. Taken together, the and comprise roughly 40 million words and 24,000 images. The two-volume index has 2,350 pages, listing the 228,274 topics covered in the "Britannica", together with 474,675 subentries under those topics. The "Britannica" generally prefers British spelling over American; for example, it uses "colour" (not "color"), "centre" (not "center"), and "encyclopaedia" (not "encyclopedia"). However, there are exceptions to
Encyclopedia Galactica Encyclopedia Galactica The Encyclopedia Galactica is a fictional or hypothetical encyclopedia containing all the knowledge accumulated by a galaxy-spanning civilization. The name evokes the exhaustive aspects of the real-life "Encyclopædia Britannica". "Encyclopedia Galactica" first appeared in Isaac Asimov's short story "Foundation" ("Astounding Science Fiction", May 1942), later republished as "The Encyclopedists" in the short-story collection "Foundation" (1951). Asimov's "Encyclopedia Galactica" was a compendium of all knowledge then available in the Galactic Empire, intended to preserve that knowledge in a remote region of the galaxy in the event of a foreseen galactic catastrophe. The "Encyclopedia" is later revealed to be an