Abstract
THE inventions and discoveries of the present century have introduced a very considerable number of new words into the various languages of the world, but more especially into the European languages. As these words do not occur in ordinary dictionaries, special dictionaries embodying them are necessary to a great number of persons. Thus, to facilitate communication in commercial transactions between one country and another, and to enable students of science and technology to profitably consult works written in languages other than their own, they are indispensable. As regards the three principal languages of Europe, this want is supplied by the work before us, the third edition of which has recently been completed by the publication of French-German-English, and German-French-English volumes. The third edition of the English-German-French volume was published in 1878. The first edition dates as far back as 1852, and since then the work has been thoroughly revised and new matter added.
Technological Dictionary.
In 3 vols. English-German-French, French-German-English, German-French-English. Third Edition. (London: Trübner and Co., 1888.)
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F., A. Our Book Shelf . Nature 37, 534 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/037534a0
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