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Dictionary of Scientific Principles

机译：科学原理词典

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This book potentially has three good things going for it. Firstly, it is unusual - I do not know of many other reference tools that cover exactly the same ground, though there are one or two. Secondly, it appears to be accurate - I cannot pretend to have checked every entry, but I have not noticed any factual errors in those looked at. Thirdly, it has been compiled by someone who should have a reasonable claim to being aware of the needs of reference library users. Scientific principles are more commonly known as the "laws" of science. I fully agree with the compiler in preferring the word principles. The term "laws" seems to me to imply a legislator, and there are plenty of scientists whose work depends on universal principles but who would deny the existence of any such lawgiver. A clear understanding of basic principles is essential for scientific work. Every scientific textbook or reference source is likely to contain definitions of the relevant principles. I do not know of many other reference books entirely devoted to them however. I always used to use the Dictionary of Named Effects and Laws, but this has not been updated since the fourth edition, which is now over 30 years old (Ballentyne and Lovett, 1980). The most recent that I know of is the two-volume Encyclopedia of Scientific Principles, Laws and Theories (Krebs, 2008) (RR 2009/131). I have not used this encyclopedia in reference practice of course, but it looks useful to me. The Dictionary of Scientific Principles has joined a fairly small pool of specialised reference resources.
机译：这本书可能具有三方面的好处。首先，这很不寻常-尽管有一两个参考工具，但我不知道有多少其他参考工具涵盖了完全相同的领域。其次，它似乎是准确的-我不能假装检查过所有条目，但是我没有注意到所查看的任何事实错误。第三，它是由应该有合理主张了解参考库用户需求的人编写的。科学原理通常被称为科学的“法则”。我完全同意编译器的偏爱“原则”一词。在我看来，“法律”一词似乎是一名立法者，并且有许多科学家的工作依赖于普遍原则，但他们否认任何此类立法者的存在。对基本原理的清晰理解对于科学工作至关重要。每本科学教科书或参考资料都可能包含有关原理的定义。但是，我不知道其他许多专门针对它们的参考书。我以前经常使用《效应和法律命名词典》，但是自第四版以来，这本词典尚未更新，至今已有30多年的历史了（Ballentyne和Lovett，1980）。我知道的最新一本是两卷的《科学原理，法律和理论百科全书》（Krebs，2008年）（RR 2009/131）。我当然没有在参考实践中使用过这本百科全书，但对我来说似乎很有用。 《科学原理词典》加入了相当小的专业参考资源库。

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    《Reference reviews》 |2011年第8期|p.37-38|共2页
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    Martin Guha;

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    Maudsley Philosophy Group and Former Librarian, King's College London Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK;

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    dictionaries; sciences;

    机译：字典;科学;

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