By David Knight
ISBN-10: 1138643149
ISBN-13: 9781138643147
First released in 1989, this dictionary of the total box of the actual sciences is a useful consultant in the course of the altering terminology and practices of clinical study. prepared alphabetically, it strains how the which means of medical phrases have replaced through the years. It covers a variety of issues together with voyages, observations, magnetism and pendulums, and valuable matters corresponding to atom, valency and energy. There also are entries on extra summary phrases similar to hypothesis, conception, induction, deduction, falsification and paradigm, emphasizing that whereas technology is greater than ‘organized good judgment’ it's not different from different actions. Science’s loss of innocence can be well-known in headings like pollution and weapons.
This ebook can be an invaluable source to scholars attracted to the historical past of technological know-how.
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