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WE are glad to see that these interesting popular lectures, to which we referred during and after their delivery, have reached a second edition; they are well calculated to interest the general reader, and, we have no doubt, have been the means of inducing many to make a systematic study of the subject to which they refer. The principal change in this edition is the omission of Dr. Young's “Reply to the Edinburgh Reviewers,” the reprint of which in the first edition, Dr. Tyndall believes, has served the purpose intended. In place of this, a beautifully executed steel engraving of Lawrence's portrait of Young is prefixed to the volume.
Six Lectures on Light, delivered in America in 1872–73.
John
Tyndall
By, &c. Second Edition. (London: Longman and Co., 1875.)
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 12, 211 (1875). https://doi.org/10.1038/012211b0
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