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THE present portion of this encyclopedic treatise consists of electrodynamics and induction, by K. Waitz; absolute measurements of magnetic and electric quantities, by A. Oberbeck; technical applications of induction, by Th, des Coudres; telephony, by L. Rell-stab; and the theory of electric phenomena, by L. Graetz. Important though every one of these sections is, it is doubtless to the last that the reader will turn first on account of the great developments of theory during the last decade; and especially will he turn to the chapters on electrons and on the electromagnetic equations for bodies in motion. We have stated, in reviewing the previous parts that the treatise,is not intended for continuous reading. It is essentially an encyclopaedia, a book of reference. But it is the treatise per excellence to which reference should be made by all those who wish to know what has been done and what theories have been enunciated in the domain of physics.
Handbuch der Physik.
By Dr. A. Winkelmann. Second edition. Fifth volume, second part: Elektrizitat und Magnetismus, II. Pp. xiv + 971; illustrated. (Leipzig: J. A. Barth, 1908.) Price 16 marks.
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Handbuch der Physik . Nature 77, 559 (1908). https://doi.org/10.1038/077559a0
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