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Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations de W. F. Bynum

Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations: The Oxford Reference Collection

Editat de W. F. Bynum, Roy Porter
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 14 dec 2016
This dictionary is part of the Oxford Reference Collection: using sustainable print-on-demand technology to make the acclaimed backlist of the Oxford Reference programme perennially available in hardback format. The original words announcing great scientific discoveries, from the first 'Eureka!' to the cloning of Dolly the sheep, can all be found in this fascinating addition to the world-famous 'Oxford Quotations' range. An essential reference tool, put together over 15 years with the assistance of a distinguished team of specialist advisers, it includes full author descriptions, exact sources, and a word-finding index for easy reference. Scholarly but accessible, it also presents the human face of science, as scientists reflect on achievements and failures in their own lives and those of others. Darwin not only describes natural selection, but carefully assesses the pros and cons of marriage, while James Clerk Maxwell constructs an electric but poetic Valentine as well as his 'demon'. From Archimed
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198804857
ISBN-10: 0198804857
Pagini: 736
Dimensiuni: 138 x 199 x 44 mm
Greutate: 0.84 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Seria The Oxford Reference Collection

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Recenzii

Review from previous edition The dictionary is a good source material, richly produced in the best Oxford University Press manner.
marvellous...There are other dictionaries of scientific quotations. But this extraordinay compilation is infinitely richer than a trawl through existing collections nor is it like most dictionaries of quotations, which often deal in sound-bites.
Serendipitous is the word for this book stuffed with memorable words.
Bill Bynum and the late Roy Porter's corrective plucks passages from an enormous range of literatures of science, and on science...A real plum pudding.
...an exquisite treasury of scientific thought and sensibilities.

Notă biografică

W. F. Bynum is Professor Emeritus of the history of medicine at the Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London. His research has been directed at a number of topics, including the history of psychiatry, the relationship between basic science and medical practice, the history of disease, especially malaria in British India, and the impact of evolutionary biology on medicine. He has edited many books, including (with Janet Browne and Roy Porter) The Macmillan Dictionary of the History of Science (1981), and (with Roy Porter) Companion Encyclopedia of the History of Medicine, 2 vols. (1993). He is the author of Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century (1994). He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London and of Edinburgh.Roy Porter was until his retirement Professor of the Social History of Medicine at the Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London. His books include English Society in the Eighteenth Century (1982), Mind Forg'd Manacles (1987), A Social History of Madness (1987), London: A Social History (1994), The Greatest Benefit to Mankind (1997), Enlightenment (2000), Madness: A Brief History (2002), and Flesh and the Age of Reason (2003). He died in March 2002.