A Dictionary of the History of Science

By Anton Sebastian

Book Overview

The only work of its kind, this dictionary is uniquely focused on the history of applied science, including medical and biomedical applications. It contains approximately 3000 detailed and extensively researched entries painstakingly compiled by Dr. Anton Sebastian, respected author of A Dictionary of the History of Medicine. A work of exceptional scholarship totaling some 400 double-column pages it contains many rarely seen illustrations from original sources involving hundreds of books and journals. This dictionary offers special value to scientists, doctors, and students as a marvelous source of hard-to-find, authoritative information about notable scientific figures, inventions, terms and dates, captivating anecdotes, and background material. The entries includes each term's Greek and Latin origins and concise biographies.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 185070418X
• ISBN13: 9781850704188
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 3.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 8.5" x 11.8"

Customer Reviews

Gleanings from the bones of scientific history

A random walk through oft-forgotten pathways in history. Sebastian is to be commended for his scholarship in finding obscure and sometimes charming nuggets of details. The Dictionary seems to be a labour of love. Possibly the best known of the people mentioned might be Occam. Many of the others are now thoroughly obscure.Hard to say that the book is, or could ever be, comprehensive. But perhaps that is beside the point. It aggregates gleanings scraped off the bones of scientific history, and makes these available to us, who would otherwise have no comprehension of them.