Van Nostrand's Scientific Encyclopedia

Van Nostrand's Scientific Encyclopedia

Subject	science, engineering, and technology
Publisher	D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc.
Publication date	1938[1]

Van Nostrand's Scientific Encyclopedia is an encyclopedia published in the United States. Currently in a three volume 10th edition, it was published in two volumes for editions 6 to 9. The 8th edition is available as two CD ROMs.

The first edition was published in 1938 by the D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc.^[2][3] From about 1976 the encyclopedia was published by the Van Nostrand Reinhold Company.^[4] From the late 1990s it was published by John Wiley and Sons and by Wiley-Interscience.

More than 4,000 pages long, the work provides a thorough scientific reference, while establishing a midpoint between massive multi-volume science encyclopedias and handheld reference books.

This work is sometimes compared to the McGraw-Hill Concise Encyclopedia of Science & Technology.

References

1. Lisle Abbott Rose (1950). Engineering Reports. Harper.
2. Van Nostrand's scientific encyclopedia; aeronautics, astronomy, botany, chemistry, engineering, geology, mathematics, medicine, mineralogy, navigation, physics, zoology, New York: D. Van Nostrand company, Inc. c. 1938, loc.gov. Retrieved 28 May 2018.
3. L., H. R. (1938). "Van Nostrand's Scientific Encyclopedia". Nature. 142 (3602): 853–854. Bibcode:1938Natur.142..853H. doi:10.1038/142853a0. PMC 199381.
4. Dennis Brooks (4 March 2015). Earth's Magnetic Field Secrets: An Illusion Mixed With Reality. Speedy Publishing LLC. pp. 64–. ISBN 978-1-68127-485-0.