- Paperback: 222 pages
- Publisher: New Holland Publishers (Jun 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1877069205
- ISBN-13: 978-1877069208
- Product Dimensions: 16.4 x 14 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,144,641 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Contains the principles, theories, hypotheses, rules, axioms, theorems, equations, models, systems and paradoxes that form the foundations of science. The entries explain the theories and provide a context in which these discoveries were made, offering an insight into the history of science.
About the Author
Surendra is a science writer based in Melbourne. He has published six books and more than 700 feature articles, news reports and book reviews in Australian and international publication, including New Scientist. He has been a regular contributor to the Melbourne Age, the Melbourne Sun, the Melbourne Herald and the Adelaide Advertiser. From 1995 to 1999 he wrote a regular 'Science Talk' column for the education supplement of the Melbourne Age. He is presently working on a popular science book tentatively called The Tunguska Fireball: A New Look at an Old Mystery which will be published by Icon Books in the UK in 2005
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Too many mistakes!,
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This review is from: The Little Book of Scientific Principles, Theories and Things (Paperback)
I read the 5 star review before I bought this book and I was initially very pleased with the accessible way the author handled the topics. Then I read a description of the isotopes of hydrogen which is just plain wrong. I have complained to the publishers and looked online for reviews that point out these errors and guess where I found them - Amazon.com! Unfortunately the good reviews don't tell the whole story. This book is not reliable and I cannot recommend it.
5.0 out of 5 stars
A must have for all science teachers and nerds.,
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This review is from: The Little Book of Scientific Principles, Theories and Things (Paperback)
Here you get a short and precise definition on all the laws and theories in modern science.
If you're not driven in science its okay, here the theories are broken down to kinder garden level.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Should have been proofread, fact checked...,
By bokubob - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Little Book of Scientific Principles, Theories, & Things (Paperback)
This book just makes so many mistakes that I recommend that I can't recommend it to anyone. The annoying mistakes are numerous publishing errors like &lambda (small lambda) being printed as just l (pg. 144), &theta (small theta) as a q (pg. 138), or &harr (left right arrow) as the euro sign (pg. 114).
Then the author is just wrong in other places, such as: Claiming that ordinary hydrogen consists of one neutron (should be one proton) and hydrogen three consists of two protons and one neutron (should be one proton and two neutrons) (pg. 160). Claiming that atoms had been cooled to below absolute zero (pg. 145). Other sections are just confusing, such as: "The Schwarzschild radius is roughly equal to three times the weight of the black hole (in solar masses)." (pg. 159) How does a distance equal a mass? These were just the errors that I found while casually reading this evening. How many more could there be? The fact that the type was wrong for the greek characters tells me no one bothered to read it before shipping it out, and the blatant factual errors tells me no one bothered to fact check this before sending it to the press. There are plenty of well researched, much more useful books out there. Don't waste your money on this one. 4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Compact Mini-Encyclopedia of Essential Scientific Concepts,
By Jan Peczkis "Scholar and Thinker" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Little Book of Scientific Principles, Theories, & Things (Paperback)
As a science teacher, I have found this book invaluable as a reference and refresher book. So much information is packed into just one little volume! It contains 175 one-page entries of concepts in math and science. Each concept is labeled by the year of discovery, the discover(s), and the nationality of the discover(s). All descriptions are concise and almost always well explained and illustrated.
The math concepts include the Pythagorean Theorem and the Fibonacci numbers. Scientific concepts and discoveries include the Archimedes Principle, Eratosthenes and his measurement of the earth's sphericity over 2400 years ago, Snell's Law, Pascal's Law (as applied today in hydraulics), Boyle's Law, Hooke's Law (used today in engineering), Bernoulli's Principle (making airplane flight possible), Bode's Law (of planetary intervals), Howard's cloud types, Avogadro's Law and Number (standard in chemistry class), Gauss Law, the Foucault pendulum (proof of earth's rotation), the benzene ring as inspired by Kekule's dream of the snake biting its own tail, Polish-born Marie Curie's discovery of Polonium, the pH scale, Hubble's Law, the Richter Scale, and much more. Attention is also devoted to newer concepts such as chaos theory and the buckyball molecular morphology of elemental carbon. This little book is a must for scientifically-minded readers! 2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Good, but Unorganized,
By Herbert L Calhoun "paulocal" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Little Book of Scientific Principles, Theories, & Things (Paperback)
This is a book of over 175 scientific laws, theories, models, rules hypotheses, postulates, axioms, paradoxes, equations, constants, and other ideas that literally form the foundation of science.
Although the topics are well-chosen, and well written summaries, and appear to be well-researched, the organization of this little book suffers. The most noticeable drawback is that it has no "Table of Contents" and thus the reader is forced to use the index to find topics, whose placement in the book seem to have no rhyme or reason. The diagrams and pictures are helpful once a topic is located via the index. However, there is no way the reader can know what the book contains, or what to anticipate. This most trivial of oversights, makes and otherwise good book just average. Two stars |
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