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Genre/Form: | Encyclopedias History |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Wilbur Applebaum |
ISBN: | 9780415988469 0415988462 |
OCLC Number: | 179814223 |
Notes: | Originally published: New York : Garland Pub., 2000. |
Description: | xxxv, 758 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
Contents: | |
Responsibility: | editor, Wilbur Applebaum. |
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"Clearly, and often engagingly, written...accessible to a fairly wide readership...The attention to the cultural aspects of this period of science, the quality of the articles, and the collocation of these topics in one volume make this a useful reference source for many types of libraries." -- American Reference Books Annual"Filling a hole in reference collections on the history of science...this work will find a welcome home in academic libraries and public libraries.." -- Library Journal"Scholarly without being obtuse... Recommended for larger public and academic science reference collections." -- Booklist/RBB Read more...

