Das wissenschaftliche Handbuch

摘要

The 100th anniversary of Beilstein's Handbook of Organic Chemistry, founded in 1881, merits a brief description of the principal concepts and goals of the literary genre “scientific handbook” in general. Systematic arrangement, critical data and fact evaluation, thoroughness and reliability are among these goals, thus providing the handbook user with a concise compilation of carefully checked and cross-referenced information in his particular field of inter