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PROF. HOLMAN here addresses students and teachers of physics and chemistry on the concepts and definitions of physical science. Some knowledge of the experimental side of the subject and its phenomena and laws is assumed, and the logical expression and sequence of the ideas put forward should prove of great value to engineers, and others who have to apply physical and chemical knowledge, in enabling them to think clearly when dealing with the fundamental ideas on which all successful practice must be based. The book is divided into two parts: the first is concerned with a consideration of matter, motion, energy, force and work; the second with the kinetic theory of gases, Le Sage's theory of gravitation, the vortex-atom theory, and the nature of energy and matter. Prof. Holman describes the first part as “a sporadic attempt at clear, consecutive setting forth of individual thought,” the second as intended “to give more concreteness to the concepts than could properly be introduced into the first part.” The volume deserves to be widely read.
Matter, Energy, Force and Work.
By Silas W. Holman. Pp. xiv + 257. (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1898.)
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Matter, Energy, Force and Work. Nature 59, 199 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/059199c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/059199c0