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THIS handsome volume is a worthy attempt to popularise the physical, chemical, biological, and geological sciences. As the editor remarks, popular science has too often been synonymous with inexact science, and any attempt to show that scientific knowledge may be presented in an interesting manner, and be at the same time correct, is to be welcomed. The book is profusely illustrated and contains a well-selected series of brightly written essays on various subjects of pure and applied science. The volume may be recommended as a suitable present to boys and girls, who will probably by its means be led to study more deeply one of the many branches of science of which some of the methods and results are described.
Cassell's Popular Science.
Edited by Alexander S. Galt. Pp. viii + 576. (London: Cassell and Co., Ltd., 1903.) Price 12s.
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Cassell's Popular Science . Nature 69, 78 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/069078c0
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