Dictionary of Science
Lafferty, Peter & Rowe, Julian Editors
Sold by Collina Books, PENZANCE, CORNW, United Kingdom
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For a reader alert to the Briticisms, this can be a handy tool. The editorial and design staffs have paid attention to the needs of the browser. The 5,000 entries range from a few lines to a page or so. There are chronologies of great events and boxed full-page progress reports for the various sciences. Medicine is covered, as are technology, computers, and environmental science, but the social sciences are not. A dozen science puzzles are scattered throughout the book with answers at the back. Anyone who watched Mr. Wizard will be able to solve them. Following the puzzle answers are the Greek alphabet, values of fundamental constants, SI (Systeme International) units, the periodic table, and lists of Nobel Prize winners in chemistry, physiology, and physics. A list of great scientists divided by field with birth and death dates is also given; there are no biographical entries in the text. The thematic indexes at the end will be useful, although entries are extensively cross-referenced.
More than 400 diagrams explain entries. These black-and-white drawings are clear and comprehensible. Some, like that for urinary system, are busy, but there are few of these. Boxes and other features keep pages that are all text from being dull; these features range from quick facts about the preceding entry to quotations following entries (e.g., S. J. Harris: The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men but that men will begin to think like computers).
No academic backgrounds are given for the contributors, but some of them, such as Dougal Dixon and Ian Ridpath, are familiar enough to readers of popular scienceand Nova watchersto inspire confidence. The articles are clear and concise, written for the nonscientist but not patronizing.
This book is not an essential purchase, but at the price, medium to large public libraries seeking dependable current information will want to consider, as will community college and large high-school libraries.
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