Van Nostrand's Scientific Encyclopedia

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The first edition was published in 1938 by the D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc.[1][2] From about 1976 the encyclopedia was published by the Van Nostrand Reinhold Company.[3] 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.

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