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Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations
The Oxford Reference Collection
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This dictionary is part of the Oxford Reference Collection: using sustainable print-on-demand technology to make the acclaimed backlist of the Oxford Reference programme perennially available in hardback format. The original words announcing great scientific discoveries, from the first 'Eureka!' to the cloning of Dolly the sheep, can all be found in this fascinating addition to the world-famous 'Oxford Quotations' range. An essential reference tool, put together over
15 years with the assistance of a distinguished team of specialist advisers, it includes full author descriptions, exact sources, and a word-finding index for easy reference. Scholarly but accessible, it also presents the human face of science, as scientists reflect on achievements and failures in
their own lives and those of others. Darwin not only describes natural selection, but carefully assesses the pros and cons of marriage, while James Clerk Maxwell constructs an electric but poetic Valentine as well as his 'demon'. From Archimed
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Review from previous edition The dictionary is a good source material, richly produced in the best Oxford University Press manner. * Nature * marvellous...There are other dictionaries of scientific quotations. But this extraordinay compilation is infinitely richer than a trawl through existing collections nor is it like most dictionaries of quotations, which often deal in sound-bites. * Spectator * Serendipitous is the word for this book stuffed with memorable words. * New Scientist * Bill Bynum and the late Roy Porter's corrective plucks passages from an enormous range of literatures of science, and on science...A real plum pudding. * Lancet 25/06/05 * ...an exquisite treasury of scientific thought and sensibilities. * Library Journal, July 2005 *