This milestone extensive work combines the essentials of history
biography, chronology, political and economic background with the
observations, theories, principles, laws and equations that
constitute the specifics of science.
The 5800-page Encyclopedia arises from the conviction that the
optimal perspective on science is through the lens of history,
setting aside traditional divisions of discipline and specialty,
and rising above geopolitical boundaries. Reaching from 4,200 BCE
to the 21st century CE, the Encyclopedia tells (as the author
himself puts it) "not only who did it and when it was done but also
precisely what was done."
The author, Ari Ben-Menahem, surveys 100 generations of great
thinkers, offering 2070 detailed biographies of scientists,
engineers, explorers and inventors, who left their mark on the
history of science and technology. The span of coverage is
all-encompassing: mathematics, philosophy, logic, physical and
environmental sciences (including physics, chemistry, astronomy,
earth and space sciences and cosmology), life sciences (biology,
medicine, physiology, botany, zoology and biochemistry), associated
engineering disciplines, and the social sciences (among them
economics, psychology, sociology, anthropology, linguistics and
more).
The six-volume Encyclopedia also includes 380 articles
summarizing the time-line of ideas in the leading fields of
science, technology, mathematics and philosophy, plus useful
tables, figures and photos, and 20 Science Progress Reports
detailing scientific setbacks. Interspersed throughout are
quotations, gathered from the wit and wisdom of sages, savants and
scholars throughout the ages from antiquity to modern times.
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