7,000 science and technology articles. covering everything from acoustics to. zoology. Thoroughly revised and updated, this classic encyclopedia. features more than 7,000 concise articles. covering all areas of science and technologywritten. by authors at the forefront of their fields, including. numerous Nobel Prize winners.. Richly illustrated with more than 1,700 illustrations, the. "McGraw-Hill Concise Encyclopedia of Science And Technology," features 1,300 biographies of famous scientists, hundreds. of tables and charts, cross-references to related. articles, and an index containing 30,000 entries. Readers.