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A DYSPEPTIC reviewer once grudgingly concluded his notice of a book with the words, “We have not detected any errors, but no doubt there are some”. In a work of the comprehensive range of this “Encyclopaedia”, it is almost inevitable that there should be sins of omission or of commission, but our attitude towards such an enterprise is one of admiration for what has been so well done rather than of finding faults in it. The work is, however, not so much an encyclopaedia as an encyclopaedic dictionary. Though a fair number of the articles may rightly be described as encyclopaedic in character, most of the entries are of the nature of definitions or explanatory paragraphs relating to words and terms which make up the vocabulary of science and technology.
Hutchinson's Technical and Scientific Encyclop“dia: Terms, Processes, Data, in Pure and Applied Science, Construction and Engineering, the Principal Manufacturing Industries, the Skilled Trades: with a Working Bibliography.
Edited by C. F. Tweney I. P. Shirshov. In 3 vols. Vol. 1: A to Direction-Finding. Pp. viii + 672. (London: Hutchinson and Co. (Publishers), Ltd., n.d.) 28s.
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[Short Notices]. Nature 135, 387 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135387a0
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