Science Pictorial Dictionary

A Picture based dictionary

Color photographs and detailed text describe more than 50,000 terms and 270 major entries on everything from the prehistoric earth and the sciences to sports, art, and music.

A comprehensive dictionary of physics, chemistry, astronomy, and other sciences with definitions, explanations, and illustrations.

This reference presents thousands of ocular terms of interest to optometrists, visual scientists, ophthalmologists and opticians. The coverage includes: ocular pharmacology; ocular genetics; ocular implant lenses; physical and geometrical optics.

This reference work is a guide to the main scientific disciplines, from the workings of plants, animals and the human body, through the principles of physics and chemistry, to the fundamentals of the universe. Each section provides an overview of an area of science and its main terms. An introduction explains and defines, while the extensive labelling of images should help the reader to understand. Special sections spotlight the most influential scientists and the critical moments in the history of scientific development.