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A BRIEF enumeration of the more prominent facts and formulæ of physics; carefully divided into subjects, and with occasional dates and names of inventors or discoverers. We conceive that to make an excellent work of this kind (if such a thing be at all desirable), all that is necessary, is to take a really good treatise on natural philosophy and construct something between an Index to, and an Abstract of, its contents. It seems probable that some such process has been employed by Dr. Bothe; but either he cannot have used a trustworthy book for analysis, or his analysis is not a faithful one. In fact, if we look on it seriously, a more painful volume we have not often met with; nor a more amusing one, if we could fancy its blunders intended to amuse. We simply open its pages at hazard, and make a few pickings:—
Physikalisches Repetitorium, &c., &c.
Von Dr. Ferdinand Bothe. Second Edition, revised and enlarged. (Brunswick: Vieweg, 1871.)
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Physikalisches Repetitorium, &c., &c. . Nature 5, 141 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/005141b0
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