History of the Encyclopædia Britannica the criteria by which the articles were sorted were not obvious even to scholars, despite Dr. Adler's claims that the sorting followed naturally from the "Propædia's" outline of all knowledge. In 1985, the "Britannica" responded to reader requests by restoring the index as a two-volume set. The number of topics indexed by the "Britannica" has fluctuated from 500,000 (1985, the same as in 1954) to 400,000 (1989,1991) to 700,000 in the current 2007 print version. Presumably, this recent increase reflects the introduction of efficient electronic indexing, since the size of the encyclopedia has remained nearly constant at approximately 40 million
Great Greek Encyclopedia of 24 volumes, one of which is especially dedicated to Greece. The encyclopedia is known for the extensive use of Katharevousa. Great Greek Encyclopedia The Great Greek Encyclopedia (Greek: "Μεγάλη Ελληνική Εγκυκλοπαίδεια") is a general knowledge Greek-language encyclopedia, printed initially between 1926 and 1934. The encyclopedia was founded in 1926 by Pavlos Drandakis (1896–1945) after the model of "Encyclopædia Britannica". He was helped by many well-known and qualified contributors and the result was deemed to be excellent. Pyrsos, Ltd. was commissioned with printing the encyclopedia. Pavlos Drandakis reserved some rights of the encyclopedia which he later claimed in court. After