Author: Ari Ben-Menahem

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2009-03-06

Total Pages: 6070

ISBN-13: 3540688315

This 5,800-page encyclopedia surveys 100 generations of great thinkers, offering more than 2,000 detailed biographies of scientists, engineers, explorers and inventors who left their mark on the history of science and technology. This six-volume masterwork also includes 380 articles summarizing the time-line of ideas in the leading fields of science, technology, mathematics and philosophy.