New Dictionary of Scientific Biography
- Published by Charles Scribner's Sons
In December 2007, Charles Scribner's Sons will release the first major expansion of the Dictionary of Scientific Biography, entitled The New Dictionary of Scientific Biography, featuring more than 800 completely new articles. This new work extends, complements, and comments upon the original Dictionary of Scientific Biography, which contains thousands of biographies of mathematicians and natural scientists from all countries and from all historical periods. The Dictionary of Scientific Biography presents an accurate and reliable narrative of the development of science, not as a mere accumulation of technical information but as the collective accomplishment that has ordered our understanding of nature. Nearly 500 of the new articles are devoted to scientists deceased since 1950 and not previously treated in the Dictionary of Scientific Biography including Hans Bethe, Francis Crick, Richard Feynman, Stephen Jay Gould, Fred Hoyle, Mary Leakey, Konrad Lorenz, Barbara McClintock, Linus Pauling, Andrei Sakharov, B. F. Skinner, and Edward Teller. There are also more than 75 articles on figures overlooked in the original Dictionary of Scientific Biography (from Chrysippus to Kinsey) and 250 "postscript" commentaries on important careers that have inspired new research and interpretation (from Archimedes and Aristotle to Darwin, Einstein, and Oppenheimer).
The New Dictionary of Scientific Biography guarantees the permanent relevance of the original work and constitutes a huge expansion of its scope.
Through a special arrangement with the American Council of Learned Societies, Charles Scribner's Sons has arranged not only to provide the New Dictionary of Scientific Biography in eBook format, but also to digitize the entire back-file of the original Dictionary of Scientific Biography . This comprehensive eBook includes the complete text of the 18-volume original (including supplements) plus the New Dictionary of Scientific Biography! Comprising 26-volume eBook, the Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography eBook will provide library patrons with the world's largest and most comprehensive collection of narrative scientific biographies.
Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
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eBook version
- Published by Charles Scribner's Sons
This 26 volume reference source contains biographies of mathematicians and natural scientists from all countries and from all historical periods. It presents an accurate and reliable narrative of the development of science, not as a mere accumulation of technical information but as the collective accomplishment that has ordered our understanding of nature.
Through a special arrangement with the American Council of Learned Societies, Charles Scribner's Sons has arranged not only to provide the New Dictionary of Scientific Biography in eBook format, but also to digitize the entire back-file of the original Dictionary of Scientific Biography . This comprehensive eBook includes the complete text of the 18-volume original, plus the New Dictionary of Scientific Biography! Together, this 26-volume eBook, the Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography will provide library patrons with the world's largest and most comprehensive collection of narrative scientific biographies. By detailing the achievements and personalities behind the quest to understand the natural world, the Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography sheds light on not just the history of science, but on the history of humankind.
- Published/Released: December 2007
- ISBN 13: 9780684315591
- ISBN 10: 0684315599
- Product number: 233444
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