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WE propose in the present article to carry out the intention expressed in a former number (vol. xii. p. 206) of giving fuller details of the practical instruction in physics, which forms a part of the summer course of instruction given to science teachers by the Science and Art Department. The teaching of practical physics presents several difficulties, which have no doubt largely militated against its general introduction into the course of scientific education. It has not yet been systematised. Unlike practical chemistry one cannot select a practical text-book on physics and give it to the students; for such text-books do not yet exist in English. We are not forgetting the translation of Weinhold's Experimental Physics, which we lately reviewed in these columns; but that bock is unsuitable for most students owing to its unwieldy size and high price.
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Practical Physics . Nature 12, 245–247 (1875). https://doi.org/10.1038/012245a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/012245a0