Astronomy. Earth Science Volume - Da Ci Hai

Author: Fang Cheng
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Publish Date: 2005-12-01
Features: The Great Dictionary is a large-scale comprehensive dictionary. Its publication fills a gap in Chinese lexicography. To date, the Ci Hai is the only large-scale comprehensive dictionary in China. It includes both single characters and common terms, as well as specialized terms across various fields, serving the functions of both a general and a specialized dictionary. With rich entries, convenient retrieval, and strong practicality, it has been widely favored by readers. With the accelerating accumulation and innovation of human knowledge and the improvement of China's cultural literacy, many readers with higher education levels have raised higher demands for the Ci Hai. Therefore, while continuing to compile new editions of the Ci Hai to meet the needs of the times, it is necessary to compile a larger-scale, more comprehensive, and richer dictionary than the Ci Hai. The compilation of the Great Dictionary is based on the Ci Hai, inheriting its strengths and expanding them. The focus is on adding new fields and terms/meanings in various disciplines that the Ci Hai has not yet covered, while appropriately filling in gaps. The entire dictionary contains approximately 250,000 entries, totaling about 50 million words, more than twice that of the Ci Hai. It is compiled and published in volumes according to disciplinary categories. This volume includes 8,000 entries on astronomy, space science and technology, earth science, and surveying, with a selected range covering names of disciplines, personalities, works, organizations, major theories, doctrines, laws, important natural phenomena, common instruments and equipment, as well as important minerals, rocks, celestial bodies, and artificial celestial bodies. This volume is organized into four major categories: astronomy, space science and technology, earth science, and surveying. The subcategories below each major category follow traditional academic conventions. The classification is primarily for the convenience of retrieval and does not represent the disciplinary system. Earth science includes many disciplines, which are now divided into atmospheric science, solid earth physics, geomorphology, geology, and oceanography. Earth chemistry, petrology, and gemology are relatively independent disciplines, but considering their close relationship with geology, they are included under geology in the organization. Geography is covered in a separate volume, so only geomorphology is included in this volume.