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IT is rather difficult to “place” this book. At the end there is a glossary in which (amongst more difficult ones) words are defined such as these:—absorb (to take in), alter (to change), constant (always the same), detect (to find out), enlarge (to make larger). Apparently, then, the pupil is not expected to be certain about words of two syllables. We, accordingly, look for great simplicity in the text, especially as the author in his preface trusts that the explanations “have been made with a care which should render them unusually clear and simple.” We open the book at random at the first section on magnets, and find the following definition as the first sentence:mdash;“A Magnet is a body so acted upon electrically that it has the power to exert magnetic force.”
Lessons in Physics.
By Lothrop D. Higgins Pp. vii + 379; with plates and diagrams. (Boston, U.S.A., and London: Ginn and Co., 1903.) Price 4s. 6d.
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Lessons in Physics . Nature 69, 221 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/069221c0
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