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THOSE of us who are engaged in university teaching are personally interested also in the kind of science teaching which is given in schools. Lads come to college fresh from school crammed with what is called physics; but, owing to its unsatisfactory character, our first effort is usually to knock out of them the loose and erroneous knowledge with which they have been crammed. We are afraid that the book under review is not likely to improve matters. A long list of errors which we have noted down lies before us—far too long to reproduce here—and we must be content with a few as a sample.
Elements of Physics, Experimental and Descriptive.
By Amos T. Fisher assisted by Melvin J. Patterson, B.Sc. Pp. 184. (London: D. C. Heath and Co., 1903.) Price 2s. 6d.
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Elements of Physics, Experimental and Descriptive . Nature 68, 389 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/068389b0
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