http://debianws.lexgopc.com/wiki143/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Life_Science_Library Life Science Library - Revision history 2026-05-05T16:43:34Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.43.1 http://debianws.lexgopc.com/wiki143/index.php?title=Life_Science_Library&diff=6112129&oldid=prev imported>Maxeto0910: Added short description. 2022-11-03T02:18:13Z <p>Added short description.</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{short description|Book series}}<br /> [[Image:TheScientist(TimeLife Book Cover).JPG|150px|thumb| [[James D. Watson]] on the cover of &#039;&#039;The Scientist&#039;&#039; (1964), an early volume in the &#039;&#039;&#039;Life Science Library&#039;&#039;&#039;.]]<br /> The &#039;&#039;&#039;Life Science Library&#039;&#039;&#039; is a series of hardbound books published by [[Time Life]] between 1963 and 1967. Each of the 26 volumes explores a major topic of the [[natural sciences]]. They are intended for, and written at a level appropriate to, an educated lay readership. In each volume, the text of each of eight chapters is followed by a &quot;Picture Essay&quot; lavishly illustrating the subject of the preceding chapter. They were available in a monthly subscription from &#039;&#039;[[Life (magazine)|Life]]&#039;&#039; magazine. Each volume takes complex scientific concepts and provides explanations that can be easily understood. For example, [[Albert Einstein]]&#039;s [[theory of relativity]] is explained in a cartoon about a spy drama involving a train traveling very close to the speed of light; probability is explained with poker hands; and the [[periodic table of the elements]] is conveyed with common household items. Although progress has overtaken much of the material in the more than 50 years since their publication, the series&#039; explanations of basic science and the history of discovery remain valid. The consulting editors of the series are [[microbiologist]] [[René Dubos]], [[physicist]] [[Henry Margenau]], and physicist and novelist [[C. P. Snow]].<br /> <br /> Each volume was written by a primary author or authors, &quot;and the Editors of &#039;&#039;LIFE&#039;&#039;&quot;. The volumes are:<br /> <br /> *&#039;&#039;Matter&#039;&#039; (1963), by [[Ralph Lapp|Ralph E. Lapp]]<br /> *&#039;&#039;Energy&#039;&#039; (1963), by [[Mitchell Wilson]]<br /> *&#039;&#039;Mathematics&#039;&#039; (1963), by [[David Bergamini]]<br /> *&#039;&#039;The Body&#039;&#039; (1964), by [[Alan E. Nourse]]<br /> *&#039;&#039;The Cell&#039;&#039; (1964), by [[John E. Pfeiffer]]<br /> *&#039;&#039;The Scientist&#039;&#039; (1964), by [[Henry Margenau]] and [[David Bergamini]]<br /> *&#039;&#039;Machines&#039;&#039; (1964), by [[Robert C. O&#039;Brien (author)|Robert O&#039;Brien]]<br /> *&#039;&#039;Man and Space&#039;&#039; (1964), by [[Arthur C. Clarke]]<br /> *&#039;&#039;The Mind&#039;&#039; (1964), by [[John Rowan Wilson]]<br /> *&#039;&#039;Sound and Hearing&#039;&#039; (1965), by [[Stanley Smith Stevens|S. S. Stevens]] and [[Fred Warshofsky]]<br /> *&#039;&#039;Ships&#039;&#039; (1965), by [[Edward V. Lewis]] and [[Robert C. O&#039;Brien (author)|Robert O&#039;Brien]]<br /> *&#039;&#039;Flight&#039;&#039; (1965), by [[H. Guyford Stever]] and [[James J. Haggerty]]<br /> *&#039;&#039;Growth&#039;&#039; (1965), by [[James M. Tanner]] and [[Gordon Rattray Taylor]]<br /> *&#039;&#039;Health and Disease&#039;&#039; (1965), by [[René Dubos]] and [[Maya Pines]]<br /> *&#039;&#039;Weather&#039;&#039; (1965), by [[Philip D. Thompson]] and [[Robert C. O&#039;Brien (author)|Robert O&#039;Brien]]<br /> *&#039;&#039;Planets&#039;&#039; (1966), by [[Carl Sagan]] and [[Jonathan Norton Leonard]]<br /> *&#039;&#039;The Engineer&#039;&#039; (1966), by [[Clifford C. Furnas|C.C. Furnas]] and [[Joe McCarthy (writer)|Joe McCarthy]]<br /> *&#039;&#039;Time&#039;&#039; (1966), by [[Samuel Goudsmit|Samuel A. Goudsmit]] and [[Robert Claiborne]]<br /> *&#039;&#039;Water&#039;&#039; (1966), by [[Luna B. Leopold]] and [[Kenneth S. Davis]]<br /> *&#039;&#039;Giant Molecules&#039;&#039; (1966), by [[Herman F. Mark]]<br /> *&#039;&#039;Light and Vision&#039;&#039; (1966), by [[Conrad G. Mueller]] and [[Mae Rudolph]]<br /> *&#039;&#039;Food and Nutrition&#039;&#039; (1967), by [[William H. Sebrell, Jr]] and [[James J. Haggerty]]<br /> *&#039;&#039;The Physician&#039;&#039; (1967), by [[Russel V. Lee]] and [[Sarel Eimerl]]<br /> *&#039;&#039;Drugs&#039;&#039; (1967), by [[Walter Modell]] and [[Alfred Lansing]]<br /> *&#039;&#039;Wheels&#039;&#039; (1967), by Ezra Bowen<br /> *&#039;&#039;A Guide to Science and Index to the LIFE Science Library&#039;&#039; (1967)<br /> <br /> ==See also==<br /> *[[Life Nature Library]]<br /> <br /> [[Category:Science books]]<br /> [[Category:Time Life book series]]<br /> <br /> <br /> {{biology-book-stub}}</div> imported>Maxeto0910