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MESSRS. MACMILLAN have just issued the fifth edition of the late Mr. Todhunter's work on analytical statics, edited by Prof. Everett. In his preface the editor states that the most important changes he has made in the old matter relate to attraction, virtual velocities, and general theorems on systems of forces. He has added a brief chapter on graphical statics, a series of articles on the connexion between centres of gravity and resultants of forces at a point (with an exposition of vectors), and a new theorem on a string under a central force. The omissions include most of the articles on the attraction of ellipsoids, in conformity with the design of the book in its present form, which is intended to contain such a selection of subjects as may with advantage be studied in a first course of analytical statics.
A Treatise on Analytical Statics. With numerous Examples
I. Todhunter. Fifth Edition. Edited by J. D. Everett, M.A., F.R.S. (London: Macmillan and Co., 1887.)
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 36, 459 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/036459b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/036459b0