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Re:For Centuries, Know-It-Alls Carried Beautiful Miniature A... by AnotherGoodName on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @05:12PM (#19567307)
Pears Cyclopaedia is one i grew up with. It was a tiny book with ~1000 tissue paper thin pages that seemed to always have everything i needed. From logarithmic tables and maths/physics functions to a periodic table.

I went to school before wikipedia and this book helped a lot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pears%27_Cyclopaedia

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Re:For Centuries, Know-It-Alls Carried Beautiful Miniature A... by ggm on Thursday April 04, 2019 @12:22AM (#19569281)
I have a copy of this from the turn of the century (last century) which says (in paraphrase) Physics: some recent developments from physicists such as Dr Einstein & Prof. Bohr suggest there may be further changes in our understanding of this field -It's pre quantum mechanics classical physics admitting its on the cusp of a significant change..
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