Album of Science: The Physical Sciences in the Twentieth Century - Hardcover

Gingerich, Owen

9780684154978: Album of Science: The Physical Sciences in the Twentieth Century

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ISBN 10: 0684154978 ISBN 13: 9780684154978

Publisher: Charles Scribners Sons/Reference, 1989

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From Book News:

Completes the five-volume set, Album of science. Contains over 400 photographs and other illustrations tracing the course of the physical sciences in the 20th century. Some features are the first x-ray; pictures of the large observatories being built; photographs from Skylab, Pioneer, and Voyager; and biographical notes on Nobel laureates in physics and chemistry, the sections cover the era of Rutherford, Einstein, and Bohr; early astronomy; the earth and its environment; atomic energy; the structure of matter; electronics and computers; recent astronomy; and the public and political roles of science. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

From Library Journal:

This completes Scribner's five-volume Album of Science series, compilations of primary pictorial sources for the history of science. Our reviewer called the first volume, L. Pearce Williams's The Nineteenth Century ( LJ 4/15/78), "a valuable book" that "will best serve a general audience." The other titles in this series are I. Bernard Cohen's From Leonardo to Lavoisier, 1450-1800 ( LJ 4/15/78); John E. Murdoch's Antiquity and the Middle Ages (1984); and Merriley Borell's The Biological Sciences in the Twentieth Century (1988).
- Judy Quinn, "Library Journal"
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