Dictionary of the history of science / edited by W.F. Bynum, E.J. Browne, Roy Porter.
Contributor(s): Bynum, W. F. (William F.)
| Browne, E. J. (E. Janet) | Porter, Roy.
Material type: 
BookPublisher: London : MacMillan, 1981 (1983 printing)Description: 494 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0333349016; 0333293169.Subject(s): Science -- History -- DictionariesDDC classification: 509
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Store Item | 509 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00044808 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The Macmillan Dictionary of the History of Science is the first dictionary devoted to the history of scientific ideas. Organised alphabetically by concept, it contains more than 700 entries explaining the origins, meaning and significance of the chief theories and ideas that have contributed to the development of science, including medicine, mathematics and the human sciences. This Dictionary contains entries several hundreds of words long, while the major themes consist of over a thousand words. The Dictionary is extensively cross-referenced and also contains an index listing all the scientists mentioned in the book with the entry headings under which they appear, so giving a concise profile of individual interests and areas of work.
Bibliography: pxxiii-xxxiii. - Includes index.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Roy Sydney Porter was born December 31, 1946. He grew up in a south London working class home. He attended Wilson's Grammar School, Camberwell, and won an unheard of scholarship to Cambridge.His starred double first in history at Cambridge University (1968) led to a junior research fellowship at his college, Christ's, followed by a teaching post at Churchill College, Cambridge. His Ph.D. thesis, published as The Making Of Geology (1977), became the first of more than 100 books that he wrote or edited.
Porter was a Fellow and Director of Studies in History at Churchill College, Cambridge from 1972 to 1979; Dean from 1977 to 1979; Assistant Lecturer in European History at Cambridge University from 1974 to 1977, Lecturer from 1977 to 1979. He joined the Wellcome Institute fot the History of Medicine in 1979 where he was a Senior Lecturer from 1979 to 1991, a Reader from 1991 to 1993, and finally a Professor in the Social History of Medicine from 1993 to 2001.
Porter was Elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1994, and he was also made an honorary fellow by both the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
Roy Porter died March 4, 2002, at the age of 55.
(Bowker Author Biography)