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NL888 Posted 12 years ago
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Oxford Companion?

Does "Oxford Companion" mean "Oxford Guideline"?


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  1. "... modern science is a discovery as well as an invention. It was a discovery that nature generally acts regularly enough to be described by laws and even by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics; and required invention to devise the techniques, abstractions, apparatus, and organization for exhibiting the regularities and securing their law-like descriptions." —p.vii, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._L._Heilbron, (2003, editor-in-chief). The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science. New York: Oxford University Press. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0195112296.
  

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NL888 Does "Oxford Companion" mean "Oxford Guideline"? It is not a guideline. It is a history of modern science.

  • NL888 Does "Oxford Companion" mean "Oxford Guideline"?
  • It is not a guideline.
  • It is a history of modern science.
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NL888Does "Oxford Companion" mean "Oxford Guideline"?
It is not a guideline. It is a history of modern science.
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What does Companion mean here then?
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A book that should be with you when you are studying (whatever field).

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