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Article: Ultimate Visual Dictionary of Science.(Book Review)
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- ETC.: A Review of General Semantics
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- March 22, 2003
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Ultimate Visual Dictionary of Science. New York: DK Publishing, 1998.
Contrary to its title, the Ultimate Visual Dictionary of Science is not basically a visual dictionary of the type that can be used to find the names of things from their pictures. I think it is not a dictionary at all. Rather it is a condensed, highly illustrated encyclopedia of science.
However, unlike a conventional encyclopedia, which is entirely alphabetical, the UVDS is divided into 11 topical major sections, namely Physics, Chemistry, Life Sciences and Ecology, Human Anatomy, Medical Science, Earth Sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Electronics and Computer Science, and ...