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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, A Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers, A Biographical Dictionary of Railway Engineers, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Daughters of Light, Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, Dictionary of Scientific Biography, English Eccentrics and Eccentricities, International Who's Who in Music, SIKART, The Biographical Dictionary of British Quakers in Commerce and Industry 1775-1920, Who's Who scam. Excerpt: Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology is a history of science by Isaac Asimov, written as the biographies of over 1500 scientists. Organized chronologically, beginning with Imhotep (entry "") and concluding with Stephen Hawking (entry ""), each biographical entry is numbered, allowing for easy cross-referencing of one scientist with another. Nearly every biographical sketch contains links to other biographies. For example, the article about John Franklin Enders has the sentence "Fleming's penicillin was available thanks to the work of Florey and Chain . . ." This allows one to quickly refer to the articles about Fleming, Florey, and Chain. It includes scientists in all fields including biologists, chemists, astronomers, physicists, mathematicians, geologist, and explorers. The alphabetical list of biographical entries starts with ABBE, Cleveland and ends with ZWORYKIN, Vladimir Kosma In the second edition Isaac Newton receives the greatest coverage, a biography of seven pages. Galileo, Faraday and Einstein tie, with five pages each, and Lavoisier and Darwin get four pages each. Dutch writer Gerrit Krol said about the book, "One of the charms of this encyclopedia is that to each name he adds those with whom this...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781230561318
  • Publisher: University-Press.Org
  • Publisher Imprint: University-Press.Org
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 26
  • Spine Width: 1 mm
  • Weight: 68 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1230561315
  • Publisher Date: 12 Sep 2013
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, a Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers, a Biog
  • Width: 189 mm


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