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THIS work forms the seventh volume of the “London Science Class-Book Series”, jointly edited by Prof. G. C. Foster and the author of the work before us. The books are intended for “school purposes”, but we cannot imagine that the author of the “Hydrostatics and Pneumatics” can be acquainted with science teaching in schools, or its requirements, to judge of his treatment of the question of the relative densities of air at different heights (p. 125), or of the method of finding the difference of height of two stations by means of a barometer, supposing the temperature and force of gravity constant (p. 127). Or again, if we glance at pp. 18, 41, and 58, we perceive at once that the treatment is of far tco complex a nature to be taught to young boys in Form who probably have one hour, or at most two, to devote to the subject in a week. For advanced boys in Upper Fifth and Sixth Forms the book will undoubtedly prove useful, provided they can devote several hours a-week in any one Term to the subject. The work is clearly written for the most part, and there are but few omissions. We do not notice, however, any mention of the experiments of Mr. Tomlinson and Prof. Van der Mensbrugge on surace tension, nor of the experiments of Venturi, Bernouilli, and Magnus, on the lateral action of a fluid in motion.
Hydrostatics and Pneumatics
By Philip Magnus (London: Longmans and Co. 1878.)
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Hydrostatics and Pneumatics . Nature 18, 693 (1878). https://doi.org/10.1038/018693c0
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