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
Chinese encyclopedia times the amount of material in the "Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition". Although most scholars consider the 222 CE "Huanglan" (see below) to be the first Chinese "leishu" encyclopedia. Needham, Lu, and Huang call the late 4th to early 2nd centuries BCE "Erya" the oldest Chinese encyclopedia, and consider its derivative literature (beginning with the "Fangyan" and "Huanglan") as the main line of descent for encyclopedias in China. The c. 239 BCE "Lüshi Chunqiu", which is an anthology of quotes from many Hundred Schools of Thought philosophical texts, is another text sometimes characterized as the first Chinese "encyclopedia". Although its content