Author: O. Weissbach
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Beilstein Guide : a Manual for the Use of 'beilsteins Handbuch Der Organischen Chemie'
Scientific Babel
Author: Michael D. Gordin
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022600029X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
English is the language of science today. No matter which languages you know, if you want your work seen, studied, and cited, you need to publish in English. But that hasn’t always been the case. Though there was a time when Latin dominated the field, for centuries science has been a polyglot enterprise, conducted in a number of languages whose importance waxed and waned over time—until the rise of English in the twentieth century. So how did we get from there to here? How did French, German, Latin, Russian, and even Esperanto give way to English? And what can we reconstruct of the experience of doing science in the polyglot past? With Scientific Babel, Michael D. Gordin resurrects that lost world, in part through an ingenious mechanism: the pages of his highly readable narrative account teem with footnotes—not offering background information, but presenting quoted material in its original language. The result is stunning: as we read about the rise and fall of languages, driven by politics, war, economics, and institutions, we actually see it happen in the ever-changing web of multilingual examples. The history of science, and of English as its dominant language, comes to life, and brings with it a new understanding not only of the frictions generated by a scientific community that spoke in many often mutually unintelligible voices, but also of the possibilities of the polyglot, and the losses that the dominance of English entails. Few historians of science write as well as Gordin, and Scientific Babel reveals his incredible command of the literature, language, and intellectual essence of science past and present. No reader who takes this linguistic journey with him will be disappointed.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022600029X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
English is the language of science today. No matter which languages you know, if you want your work seen, studied, and cited, you need to publish in English. But that hasn’t always been the case. Though there was a time when Latin dominated the field, for centuries science has been a polyglot enterprise, conducted in a number of languages whose importance waxed and waned over time—until the rise of English in the twentieth century. So how did we get from there to here? How did French, German, Latin, Russian, and even Esperanto give way to English? And what can we reconstruct of the experience of doing science in the polyglot past? With Scientific Babel, Michael D. Gordin resurrects that lost world, in part through an ingenious mechanism: the pages of his highly readable narrative account teem with footnotes—not offering background information, but presenting quoted material in its original language. The result is stunning: as we read about the rise and fall of languages, driven by politics, war, economics, and institutions, we actually see it happen in the ever-changing web of multilingual examples. The history of science, and of English as its dominant language, comes to life, and brings with it a new understanding not only of the frictions generated by a scientific community that spoke in many often mutually unintelligible voices, but also of the possibilities of the polyglot, and the losses that the dominance of English entails. Few historians of science write as well as Gordin, and Scientific Babel reveals his incredible command of the literature, language, and intellectual essence of science past and present. No reader who takes this linguistic journey with him will be disappointed.
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1296
Book Description
Includes Part 1, Number 2: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals July - December)
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1296
Book Description
Includes Part 1, Number 2: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals July - December)
Gmelins Handbuch Der Anorganischen Chemie
Author: Richard Joseph Meyer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chemistry, Inorganic
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chemistry, Inorganic
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Beilstein Handbook of Organic Chemistry (Beilsteins Handbuch Der Organischen Chemie, Auflage Ergaenzungswerk 3/4) Centennial Index
Author: Friedrich Konrad Beilstein
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780387555140
Category : Chemistry, Organic
Languages : de
Pages : 1218
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780387555140
Category : Chemistry, Organic
Languages : de
Pages : 1218
Book Description
Book Republication Program
Author: United States. Alien Property Custodian
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alien property
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alien property
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Pedagogy and the Practice of Science
Author: David Kaiser
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262112888
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Studies examining the ways in which the training of engineers and scientists shapes their research strategies and scientific identities.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262112888
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Studies examining the ways in which the training of engineers and scientists shapes their research strategies and scientific identities.
Current Catalog
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Centennial Index V.29-1
Author: Beilstein
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780387554143
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1348
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780387554143
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1348
Book Description
Phosgene
Author: T.A. Ryan
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0080538800
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 979
Book Description
Phosgene, COCl2 is a C1 chemical of major industrial importance. The annual production, worldwide, is more than 1 million tons; 90% of which is used in the manufacture of isocyanates and of polyurethane and polycarbonate resins. Phosgene is also extensively used as a synthetic reagent in organic chemistry, in particular in the preparation of acyl chlorides, chloroformate esters, organic carbonates and carbamoyl chlorides.Although more than 7000 papers have appeared on phosgene and some 1000 papers on its analogues, this is the first book on these interesting chemicals. It presents a critical treatise of phosgene, ranging from its discovery and subsequent use as a war gas to some potential applications of the material into the 21st century. It includes chapters on biological effects and industrial hygiene; on synthesis, formation and manufacture; analysis, uses, environmental effects, and physical and thermodynamic properties. Reactions with organic and inorganic materials are described. Four of the seventeen chapters are devoted to a description of the carbonyl halides (especially carbonyl difluoride) related to phosgene, and a special section deals collectively with the electronic structures of carbonyl halide molecules.Featuring the first-ever comprehensive discussion of the medical effects of phosgene poisoning and the most modern methods of treating exposure victims, the book will be of interest to historians and militarists and those working in the chemical industries (heavy chemicals, agricultural and pharmaceutical), university libraries, hospitals, medical research centres, museums, environmental research centres, poison units and health and safety institutions world-wide.
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0080538800
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 979
Book Description
Phosgene, COCl2 is a C1 chemical of major industrial importance. The annual production, worldwide, is more than 1 million tons; 90% of which is used in the manufacture of isocyanates and of polyurethane and polycarbonate resins. Phosgene is also extensively used as a synthetic reagent in organic chemistry, in particular in the preparation of acyl chlorides, chloroformate esters, organic carbonates and carbamoyl chlorides.Although more than 7000 papers have appeared on phosgene and some 1000 papers on its analogues, this is the first book on these interesting chemicals. It presents a critical treatise of phosgene, ranging from its discovery and subsequent use as a war gas to some potential applications of the material into the 21st century. It includes chapters on biological effects and industrial hygiene; on synthesis, formation and manufacture; analysis, uses, environmental effects, and physical and thermodynamic properties. Reactions with organic and inorganic materials are described. Four of the seventeen chapters are devoted to a description of the carbonyl halides (especially carbonyl difluoride) related to phosgene, and a special section deals collectively with the electronic structures of carbonyl halide molecules.Featuring the first-ever comprehensive discussion of the medical effects of phosgene poisoning and the most modern methods of treating exposure victims, the book will be of interest to historians and militarists and those working in the chemical industries (heavy chemicals, agricultural and pharmaceutical), university libraries, hospitals, medical research centres, museums, environmental research centres, poison units and health and safety institutions world-wide.