Encyclopedia Britannica 15th Edition Complete Set 36 Volumes PLATINUM EDITION




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Reference Number: Avaluer:46976937Year Printed: 1989
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The Britannica EditionsThe Britannica has been issued in 15 editions, with multi-volume supplements to the 3rd and 4th editions (see the Table below). The 5th and 6th editions were reprints of the 4th, the 10th edition was only a supplement to the 9th, just as the 12th and 13th edi...tions were supplements to the 11th. The 15th underwent massive re-organization in 1985, but the updated, current version is still known as the 15th. The 14th and 15th editions were edited every year throughout their runs, so that later printings of each were entirely different from early ones.Throughout history, the Britannica has had two aims: to be an excellent reference book, and to provide educational material.[106] In 1974, the 15th edition adopted a third goal: to systematize all human knowledge.[7] The history of the Britannica can be divided into five eras, punctuated by changes in management, or re-organization of the dictionary.
1974–1994In the fourth era (1974–94), the Britannica introduced its 15th edition, which was re-organized into three parts: the Micropædia, the Macropædia, and the Propædia. Under Mortimer J. Adler (member of the Board of Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica since its inception in 1949, and its chair from 1974; director of editorial planning for the 15th edition of Britannica from 1965), [117] the Britannica sought not only to be a good reference work and educational tool, but to systematize all human knowledge. The absence of a separate index and the grouping of articles into parallel encyclopaedias (the Micro- and Macropædia) provoked a "firestorm of criticism" of the initial 15th edition.[3][99] In response, the 15th edition was completely re-organized and indexed for a re-release in 1985. This second version of the 15th edition continued to be published and revised until the 2010 print version. The official title of the 15th edition is the New Encyclopædia Britannica, although it has also been promoted as Britannica 3.[3]On 9 March 1976 the US Federal Trade Commission entered an opinion and order enjoining Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. from using: a) deceptive advertising practices in recruiting sales agents and obtaining sales leads, and b) deceptive sales practices in the door-to-door presentations of its sales agents.[118]
15th
1985–201032 volumes 9
Philip W. Goetz, then Robert McHenry, currently Dale HoibergRestored two-volume index; some Micropædia and Macropædia articles merged; slightly longer overall; new versions were issued every few years. Last printed edition.

Great Books of the Western World
Great Books of the Western World is a series of books originally published in the United States in 1952, by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., to present the Great Books in a 54-volume set.
VolumesOriginally published in 54 volumes, The Great Books of the Western World covers categories including fiction, history, poetry, natural science, mathematics, philosophy, drama, politics, religion, economics, and ethics. Hutchins wrote the first volume, titled The Great Conversation, as an introduction and discourse on liberal education. Adler sponsored the next two volumes, "The Great Ideas: A Syntopicon", as a way of emphasizing the unity of the set and, by extension, of Western thought in general. A team of indexers spent months compiling references to such topics as "Man's freedom in relation to the will of God" and "The denial of void or vacuum in favor of a plenum". They grouped the topics into 102 chapters, for which Adler wrote 102 introductions. Four colors identify each volume by subject area—Imaginative Literature, Mathematics and the Natural Sciences, History and Social Science, and Philosophy and Theology. The volumes contained the following works:Volume 1The Great ConversationVolume 2Syntopicon I: Angel, Animal, Aristocracy, Art, Astronomy, Beauty, Being, Cause, Chance, Change, Citizen, Constitution, Courage, Custom and Convention, Definition, Democracy, Desire, Dialectic, Duty, Education, Element, Emotion, Eternity, Evolution, Experience, Family, Fate, Form, God, Good and Evil, Government, Habit, Happiness, History, Honor, Hypothesis, Idea, Immortality, Induction, Infinity, Judgment, Justice, Knowledge, Labor, Language, Law, Liberty, Life and Death, Logic, and LoveVolume 3Syntopicon II: Man, Mathematics, Matter, Mechanics, Medicine, Memory and Imagination, Metaphysics, Mind, Monarchy, Nature, Necessity and Contingency, Oligarchy, One and Many, Opinion, Opposition, Philosophy, Physics, Pleasure and Pain, Poetry, Principle, Progress, Prophecy, Prudence, Punishment, Quality, Quantity, Reasoning, Relation, Religion, Revolution, Rhetoric, Same and Other, Science, Sense, Sign and Symbol, Sin, Slavery, Soul, Space, State, Temperance, Theology, Time, Truth, Tyranny, Universal and Particular, Virtue and Vice, War and Peace, Wealth, Will, Wisdom, and WorldVolume 4Homer (rendered into English prose by Samuel Butler)The IliadThe OdysseyVolume 5Aeschylus (translated into English verse by G.M. Cookson)The Suppliant MaidensThe PersiansSeven Against ThebesPrometheus BoundThe OresteiaAgamemnonChoephoroeThe EumenidesSophocles (translated into English prose by Sir Richard C. Jebb)The Oedipus CycleOedipus the KingOedipus at ColonusAntigoneAjaxElectraThe TrachiniaePhiloctetesEuripides (translated into English prose by Edward P. Coleridge)RhesusMedeaHippolytusAlcestisHeracleidaeThe SuppliantsTrojan WomenIonHelenAndromacheElectraBacchantesHecubaHeracles MadPhoenician WomenOrestesIphigeneia in TaurisIphigeneia at AulisCyclopsAristophanes (translated into English verse by Benjamin Bickley Rogers)The AcharniansThe KnightsThe CloudsThe WaspsPeaceThe BirdsThe FrogsLysistrataThesmophoriazusaeEcclesiazousaePlutusVolume 6HerodotusThe History (translated by George Rawlinson)ThucydidesHistory of the Peloponnesian War (translated by Richard Crawley and revised by R. Feetham)Volume 7PlatoThe Dialogues (translated by Benjamin Jowett)CharmidesLysisLachesProtagorasEuthydemusCratylusPhaedrusIonSymposiumMenoEuthyphroApologyCritoPhaedoGorgiasThe RepublicTimaeusCritiasParmenidesTheaetetusSophistStatesmanPhilebusLawsThe Seventh Letter (translated by J. Harward)Volume 8AristotleCategoriesOn InterpretationPrior AnalyticsPosterior AnalyticsTopicsSophistical RefutationsPhysicsOn the HeavensOn Generation and CorruptionMeteorologyMetaphysicsOn the SoulMinor biological worksVolume 9AristotleHistory of AnimalsParts of AnimalsOn the Motion of AnimalsOn the Gait of AnimalsOn the Generation of AnimalsNicomachean EthicsPoliticsThe Athenian ConstitutionRhetoricPoeticsVolume 10HippocratesWorksGalenOn the Natural FacultiesVolume 11EuclidThe Thirteen Books of Euclid's ElementsArchimedesOn the Sphere and CylinderMeasurement of a CircleOn Conoids and SpheroidsOn SpiralsOn the Equilibrium of PlanesThe Sand ReckonerThe Quadrature of the ParabolaOn Floating BodiesBook of LemmasThe Method Treating of Mechanical ProblemsApollonius of PergaOn Conic SectionsNicomachus of GerasaIntroduction to ArithmeticVolume 12LucretiusOn the Nature of Things (translated by H.A.J. Munro)EpictetusThe Discourses (translated by George Long)Marcus AureliusThe Meditations (translated by George Long)Volume 13Virgil (translated into English verse by James Rhoades)EcloguesGeorgicsAeneidVolume 14PlutarchThe Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans (translated by John Dryden)Volume 15P. Cornelius Tacitus (translated by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb)The Annals The HistoriesVolume 16PtolemyAlmagest, (translated by R. Catesby Taliaferro)Nicolaus CopernicusOn the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres (translated by Charles Glenn Wallis)Johannes Kepler (translated by Charles Glenn Wallis)Epitome of Copernican Astronomy (Books IV–V)The Harmonies of the World (Book V)Volume 17PlotinusThe Six Enneads (translated by Stephen MacKenna and B. S. Page)Volume 18Augustine of HippoThe ConfessionsThe City of GodOn Christian DoctrineVolume 19Thomas AquinasSumma Theologica (First part complete, selections from second part, translated by the Fathers of the English Dominican Province and revised by Daniel J. Sullivan)Volume 20Thomas AquinasSumma Theologica (Selections from second and third parts and supplement, translated by the Fathers of the English Dominican Province and revised by Daniel J. Sullivan)Volume 21Dante AlighieriThe Divine Comedy (Translated by Charles Eliot Norton)Volume 22Geoffrey ChaucerTroilus and CriseydeThe Canterbury TalesVolume 23Niccolò MachiavelliThe PrinceThomas HobbesLeviathanVolume 24François RabelaisGargantua and PantagruelVolume 25Michel Eyquem de MontaigneEssaysVolume 26William ShakespeareThe First Part of King Henry the SixthThe Second Part of King Henry the SixthThe Third Part of King Henry the SixthThe Tragedy of Richard the ThirdThe Comedy of ErrorsTitus AndronicusThe Taming of the ShrewThe Two Gentlemen of VeronaLove's Labour's LostRomeo and JulietThe Tragedy of King Richard the SecondA Midsummer Night's DreamThe Life and Death of King JohnThe Merchant of VeniceThe First Part of King Henry the FourthThe Second Part of King Henry the FourthMuch Ado About NothingThe Life of King Henry the FifthJulius CaesarAs You Like ItVolume 27William ShakespeareTwelfth Night; or, What You WillThe Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of DenmarkThe Merry Wives of WindsorTroilus and Cressida All's Well That Ends WellMeasure for MeasureOthello, the Moor of VeniceKing LearMacbethAntony and CleopatraCoriolanusTimon of AthensPericles, Prince of TyreCymbelineThe Winter's TaleThe TempestThe Famous History of the Life of King Henry the EighthSonnetsVolume 28William GilbertOn the Loadstone and Magnetic BodiesGalileo GalileiDialogues Concerning the Two New SciencesWilliam HarveyOn the Motion of the Heart and Blood in AnimalsOn the Circulation of BloodOn the Generation of AnimalsVolume 29Miguel de CervantesThe History of Don Quixote de la ManchaVolume 30Sir Francis BaconThe Advancement of LearningNovum OrganumNew AtlantisVolume 31René DescartesRules for the Direction of the MindDiscourse on the MethodMeditations on First PhilosophyObjections Against the Meditations and RepliesThe GeometryBenedict de SpinozaEthicsVolume 32John MiltonEnglish Minor PoemsParadise LostSamson AgonistesAreopagiticaVolume 33Blaise PascalThe Provincial LettersPenséesScientific and mathematical essaysVolume 34Sir Isaac NewtonMathematical Principles of Natural PhilosophyOpticsChristian HuygensTreatise on LightVolume 35John LockeA Letter Concerning TolerationConcerning Civil Government, Second EssayAn Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingGeorge BerkeleyThe Principles of Human KnowledgeDavid HumeAn Enquiry Concerning Human UnderstandingVolume 36Jonathan SwiftGulliver's TravelsLaurence SterneThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, GentlemanVolume 37Henry FieldingThe History of Tom Jones, a FoundlingVolume 38Charles de Secondat, Baron de MontesquieuThe Spirit of the LawsJean Jacques RousseauA Discourse on the Origin of InequalityA Discourse on Political EconomyThe Social ContractVolume 39Adam SmithAn Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of NationsVolume 40Edward GibbonThe Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Part 1)Volume 41Edward GibbonThe Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Part 2)Volume 42Immanuel KantCritique of Pure ReasonFundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of MoralsCritique of Practical ReasonExcerpts from The Metaphysics of MoralsPreface and Introduction to the Metaphysical Elements of Ethics with a note on ConscienceGeneral Introduction to the Metaphysic of MoralsThe Science of RightThe Critique of JudgementVolume 43American State PapersDeclaration of IndependenceArticles of ConfederationThe Constitution of the United States of AmericaAlexander Hamilton, James Madison, John JayThe FederalistJohn Stuart MillOn LibertyConsiderations on Representative GovernmentUtilitarianismVolume 44James BoswellThe Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Volume 45Antoine Laurent LavoisierElements of ChemistryJean Baptiste Joseph FourierAnalytical Theory of HeatMichael FaradayExperimental Researches in ElectricityVolume 46Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelThe Philosophy of RightThe Philosophy of HistoryVolume 47Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFaustVolume 48Herman MelvilleMoby Dick; or, The WhaleVolume 49Charles DarwinThe Origin of Species by Means of Natural SelectionThe Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to SexVolume 50Karl MarxCapitalKarl Marx and Friedrich EngelsManifesto of the Communist PartyVolume 51Count Leo TolstoyWar and PeaceVolume 52Fyodor Mikhailovich DostoevskyThe Brothers KaramazovVolume 53William JamesThe Principles of PsychologyVolume 54Sigmund FreudThe Origin and Development of Psycho-AnalysisSelected Papers on HysteriaThe Sexual Enlightenment of ChildrenThe Future Prospects of Psycho-Analytic TherapyObservations on "Wild" Psycho-AnalysisThe Interpretation of DreamsOn NarcissismInstincts and Their VicissitudesRepressionThe UnconsciousA General Introduction to Psycho-AnalysisBeyond the Pleasure PrincipleGroup Psychology and the Analysis of the EgoThe Ego and the IdInhibitions, Symptoms, and AnxietyThoughts for the Times on War and DeathCivilization and Its DiscontentsNew Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis




















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