Presumably, the most likely explanation for this omission is that the EB coverage of encyclopedias has not been updated recently consistent with this hypothesis, the most recent reference found in the encyclopedia section of the Macropedia article is dated 1995, 12 years before 2007.

Reflecting Adler's Aristotelian and Thomist bent, it was divided into an introductory volume, called a Propaedia, that set forth a classification of knowledge, a 10-volume ready-reference dictionary, called a Micropedia, and a 19-volume Macropedia filled with longer essays on major subjects.

Robbins Landon, makes no mention of a nationality.

The practice of the ' Encyclopedia Britannica ' is split : the brief anonymous summary ( ' Micropedia ' ) article calls him Austrian, but the main article ( ' Macropedia ' ), written by H.

It's difficult to see macropedia in a sentence.

As a point of information, the printed Encyclopeadia Brittanica had a section where you could look up the authors of articles in its ' Macropedia ' section, and find out, for example, whether these people were academics in a certain subject working in a university.

:* Description of the Micropedia articles could focus more on what they're meant to do ( give a very brief intro to a topic, I assume, and point to appropriate Macropedia articles for more information ) rather than what they don't do.

When I bought my own copy decades later, it came as a ' propedia ', a ' micropedia ' and a ' macropedia '-as well as index, atlas and one year book for each year for several years.

I write to you not as a past contributor who left in a tift over ungrateful moderators, but an autodidact that would like to tap the collective knowledge of Wikipedia as a macropedia.

More generally, the Macropedia seems unusually fond of biographies, geography, Western philosophies, law, mathematics, physiology, taxonomy and, perhaps not surprisingly, information science.

Interestingly, the systemic bias, judging from the distribution of topics it chooses for Macropedia articles.

The suggestion is somewhat like have a ready reference Miccropedia and in deapth Macropedia like Britannai.

Surprisingly, the 2007 Macropedia article for ' Encyclopedias and Dictionaries ' does not mention Wikipedia.

Wikipedia is not meant to be a macropedia for every possible trivial combination of information.The Micropedia may not have the same distribution as the Macropedia.