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To those who are fond of encyclopaedic omnibus volumes this book will give pleasure. Its avowed purpose is “to answer in simple terms the questions which the ordinary man and woman ask about living creatures, the world and the mechanical devices daily encountered by all”. One must admire the successful conclusion of the immense task that the preparation of this book must have proved to the author and his assistants. Nevertheless, parts of the book seem to indicate that the weariness known to all authors of large volumes must sometimes have unwittingly crept over Dr. Taylor, and one can well imagine him struggling with the gigantic array of knowledge represented by the whole of science.
The World of Science
By Dr. F. Sherwood Taylor. Pp. xvi + 1064 + 48 plates. (London: William Heinemann, Ltd., 1936.) 8s. 6d. net.
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LANG, H. The World of Science. Nature 139, 1089 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/1391089a0
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