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Pears Cyclopaedia is one i grew up with. It was a tiny book with ~1000 tissue paper thin pages that seemed to always have everything i needed. From logarithmic
by AnotherGoodName 8y ago
Pears Cyclopaedia is one i grew up with. It was a tiny book with ~1000 tissue paper thin pages that seemed to always have everything i needed. From logarithmic tables and maths/physics functions to a periodic table.
I went to school before wikipedia and this book helped a lot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pears%27_Cyclopaedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pears%27_Cyclopaedia
- ggm 8y agoI have a copy of this from the turn of the century (last century) which says (in paraphrase) Physics: some recent developments from physicists such as Dr Einstein & Prof. Bohr suggest there may be further changes in our understanding of this field -It's pre quantum mechanics classical physics admitting its on the cusp of a significant change..