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THIS is the seventh edition of a work which at the present day is almost indispensable to engineers in general. The increase and development of mathematics, year by year, and also the greater tendency towards accurate results, call for a book containing all the various rules and tables relating to those parts of mathematical and mechanical science whose application most frequently occurs in the useful arts, and especially in engineering and practical mechanics. In this volume of moderate bulk, such a work has been provided. The use of algebraical symbols has been avoided as much as possible, excepting in those cases in which the rules cannot be clearly expressed without them.
Useful Rules and Tables.
By William J. M. Rankine. Seventh Edition, revised by W. J. Millar, C.E. (London: C. Griffin and Co., 1889.)
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Our Book Shelf. Nature 40, 517–518 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/040517b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/040517b0
