Volume 1, Number 4 · October 17, 1963
A New Encyclopedia
By Gerald Holton
The Harper Encyclopedia of Science
edited by James R. Newman
Harper & Row, 4 vols., 1379 pp., $29.95
We cannot claim that ours is either the right century or the right nation for producing a good general encylopedia. Our talent seems to run more to specialized handbooks. Thus professional sociologists have long had their enviable Encylopedia of the Social Sciences, put together under a board of directors that included such notables as Franz Boas and John Dewey, and so useful over the years that many are now worried whether the projected revision can meet the same standards. Similarly, the scientists produced a few years ago the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, the first adequate work of its kind in the English language.
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