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Title page of On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences (1834). A science book is a work of nonfiction, usually written by a scientist, researcher, or professor like Stephen Hawking (A Brief History of Time), or sometimes by a non-scientist such as Bill Bryson (A Short History of Nearly Everything).
The oldest sense of the word manifest – which English poet Geoffrey Chaucer spelled as “manyfest” in the 14th century – is the adjective meaning “easily noticed or obvious”.
The Dictionary of Scientific Biography is a scholarly reference work that was published from 1970 through 1980 by publisher Charles Scribner's Sons, with main editor the science historian Charles Gillispie, from Princeton University. It consisted of sixteen volumes. It is supplemented by the New Dictionary of Scientific Biography (2007).
Science book; Science Fictions; Science in Action (book) Science In Society; Science, Order, and Creativity; Scientific Memoirs; Scientologie, Wissenschaft von der Beschaffenheit und der Tauglichkeit des Wissens; The Sea Around Us; Sekka Zusetsu; Six-legged Soldiers; The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History; The Skeptics' Guide to the ...
A sign for Crassula rupestris at the University of Helsinki Botanical Garden. The roots for the binomial name are crassus (thick, fat) and rupestris (living on cliffs or rocks) This list of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names is intended to help those unfamiliar with classical languages to understand and remember the ...
Thanks to the success of the book, Huxley was able to give up teaching and devote himself to administration and experimental science. [13] The book was originally serialised in 31 fortnightly parts, published in 3 volumes in 1929–30 and in a single volume in 1931. The volume includes more than 300 illustrations. It was a great success, though ...
Oxford Dictionary of Biology (often abbreviated to ODB) is a multiple editions dictionary published by the English Oxford University Press. With more than 5,500 entries, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] it contains comprehensive information in English on topics relating to biology , biophysics , and biochemistry . [ 3 ]
Scientific terminology is the part of the language that is used by scientists in the context of their professional activities. While studying nature, scientists often encounter or create new material or immaterial objects and concepts and are compelled to name them.