Dictionary of Science

About The Book 

The Hutchinson Dictionary of Science is an A-Z of the world of science, packed with diagrams, features, tables and chronologies.

• Over 5,000 entries
• Key scientific terms
• Thoroughly cross-referenced
• 400 helpful diagrams
• Up-to-The-minute progress reports for 20 major areas of science
• Chronologies of scientific development
• Discoveries and experiments that have changed history
• Quotations, puzzles, and fact boxes
• Thematic indexes