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IN the preface to the first edition, published twelve years ago, Prof. Linck remarked that he wished to place in the hands of chemists and others to whom some knowledge of the properties of crystallised matter was necessary a book that should be moderate in cost and should discuss with sufficient fulness, yet in simple language, the elements of crystallography. Except for the alterations necessitated by the advances made in both the subject itself and the methods of teaching it during the interval that has elapsed, the second edition follows closely on the lines of the first. The thirty-two classes of possible crystalline symmetry are subdivided into six systems in the usual way, and the proper undertanding of the symmetry peculiar to each class has been much facilitated by the admirable illustrations, reproduced from photographs of wooden models, which have been introduced into this edition; the author now adopts Groth's nomenclature.
Grundriss der Kristallographie für Studierende und zum Selbstunterricht.
By Gottlob Linck. Pp. vi + 256. Second edition. (Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1908.) Price 10 marks.
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S., G. Grundriss der Kristallographie für Studierende und zum Selbstunterricht . Nature 78, 341 (1908). https://doi.org/10.1038/078341b0
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