Scientific Classification Manual: Space and Astronomy / English-Chinese Contrast

Author: Angela
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: With the advancement of technology, it is becoming increasingly difficult for students and teachers to obtain direct and rapid solutions to fundamental scientific and algebraic problems. Therefore, they will welcome the "Science Classification Handbook: Geometry" published by U.S. FactsOnFile Publishers. The "Science Classification Handbook" series covers the following subjects: geometry, biology, chemistry, earth science, oceanography, physics, space and astronomy, weather and climate, algebra, and calculus. It is an invaluable bilingual dictionary series organized systematically by scientific disciplines.
U.S. FactsOnFile Publishers' "Science Classification Handbook: Geometry" includes the following sections:
Terminology: The book contains nearly 3,000 entries, with many entries accompanied by simple diagrams to help explain their meanings. Topics include: asymptotes, circles, graphs, inversion, matrices, Pascal's Triangle, quadrants, spheres, and vectors.
People: It introduces more than 300 mathematicians from ancient times to the present, whose discoveries have contributed to humanity's understanding and comprehension of geometry. These scientists include: Filippo Brunelleschi, René Descartes, Euclid, David Hilbert, Emmy Noether, Blaise Pascal, Karen Uhlenbeck, etc.
Chronology: It spans over 4,000 years of the history of geometry from ancient Greece to the present, including major discoveries and significant events in geometry: Thales, a Greek mathematician, predicted solar eclipses using mathematical methods (around 585 BC); John Napier, a Scottish inventor, announced the invention of logarithms (1614); Johann Lambert, a German mathematician, proved that π is irrational (1761); Albert Einstein systematically presented his theory of general relativity (1951); Buckminster Fuller, an American engineer, invented the geodesic dome (1949); James Gleick published "Chaos: The Birth of a New Science" (1987).
The series published by U.S. FactsOnFile Publishers includes a convenient index, making it easy for students and teachers to quickly verify information. This book places geometry within the broader context of science, highlighting the close connections between all disciplines and enabling comparisons and integration of information across different fields.
U.S. FactsOnFile Publishers' "Science Classification Handbook: Weather and Climate" includes the following sections:
Terminology: The book contains more than 2,200 entries, with many entries accompanied by simple diagrams to help explain their meanings. Topics include: absolute temperature, cosmic rays, extraterrestrial life, greenhouse effect, galaxy, orbital mechanics, radiation, solar wind, ultraviolet rays, and weightlessness.
People: It introduces more than 400 scientists and astronomers from ancient times to the present, whose discoveries have contributed to humanity's understanding of astronomy. These scientists include: Scott Carpenter, Henry Deacon, James Gregory, John F. Kennedy, Ferdinand Magellan, Pythagoras, Harold C. Urey, John W. Young, Alan B. Shepard Jr., etc.
Chronology: It spans nearly 8,000 years of the history of astronomy, from humanity's exploration of space and astronomical phenomena to the present, including major discoveries and significant events in astronomy: The Greek astronomer Eudoxus built the Cnidian naked-eye astronomical observatory; Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe discovered a supernova in the constellation Cassiopeia; French physicist Pierre Bouguer invented the astrolabe; American astronomer George Ellery Hale meticulously constructed a solar research tower.