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IN the absence of any preface, it is necessary for the reader to form his own opinions as to the aim or object of the book considered as a whole. This, evidently, is to arouse an interest in scientific work among unscientific people by telling the story of the discoveries of the day in unscientific language. We have here portraits of the man that weighed the crown of King Hiero, of the man that broke the atom into ions, of the man that caught and fought the deadly microbe, and other pioneers of science introduced in terms somewhat suggestive of those we have used above. Several of the illustrations show the discoverers at work in their own laboratories, and remind us that this book hails from the same land which in recent years has flooded our breakfast tables with portraits of literary men writing articles by the side of revolving bookcases.
New Conceptions in Science.
By Carl Snyder. Pp. xii + 362. (London and New York: Harper and Brothers, 1903.) Price 7s. 6d. net.
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B., G. New Conceptions in Science . Nature 69, 219 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/069219a0
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