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THE title and contents of such a work as that before us open up many questions regarding physical theory and its presentment, on which every teacher must hold more or less strong views resulting from his training and experience. Hence, in reviewing it, the temptation to discuss particular points rather at length is almost too powerful to be resisted, and perhaps need not always be overcome. If then, in what follows, there is any noticeable tendency of this kind, it is not to be supposed that the pronouncement of the authors is necessarily objected to; but that some passage or other has suggested what may appear to be rather a digression.
The Elements of Physics.
By Edward L. Nichols William S. Franklin. Vol. i. Mechanics and Heat. Pp. x + 228. Vol. ii. Electricity and Magnetism. Pp. ix + 272. Vol. iii. Light and Sound. Pp. vii. + 201. (New York: The Macmillan Company. London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1896.)
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GRAY, A. The Elements of Physics. Nature 56, 265–267 (1897). https://doi.org/10.1038/056265a0
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