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THE German original of this book appeared in 1903, and was reviewed at some length in NATURE of July 2 in the same year (vol. lxviii., p. 193). The work of translation is admirably done in every way, and the English public owes a debt of gratitude to the translator for enabling it to study in its own language one of the most interesting careers of the nineteenth century. A moderate all-round scientific training is necessary and sufficient to enable the reader to follow the description of the greater part of Helmholtz's work; but, though mathematical symbols are avoided, probably no one who has not specialised to some extent in applied mathematics will find intelligible the account of his more abstruse mathematical researches.
Hermann von Helmholtz.
By Leo Koenigsberger. Translated by Frances A. Welby, with a preface by Lord Kelvin. Pp. xvii + 440. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1906.) Price 16s. net.
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H., H. Hermann von Helmholtz . Nature 75, 198–199 (1906). https://doi.org/10.1038/075198c0
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