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IN a publishers' note it is claimed that the intention of this work is to fill up the gap between elementary treatises and those in which the exposition of physics is carried to its highest developments. With regard to any such works, of which numerous examples might be cited outside France, we may say there must necessarily be considerable resemblance one with another. It is in the higher developments that originality can come chiefly into evidence; so that it is not in any derogatory spirit that we assert that there is much in this book which can be obtained elsewhere, and which in such other places is as well presented as we find it here. But it would give quite an erroneous notion as to the contents of the volume if we were to be content with such an appraisement as this. For in many parts the treatment is so lucid, considering the difficulty of the matter, that we doubt whether it is possible to find a better book, than this of the standard which it aims at attaining. It is specially rich in illustrations of classical apparatus employed in determinations for physical data.
Leçons de Physique générale.
By J. Chappuis A. Berget. Tome I. Second edition; completely revised. Pp. xii + 669; illustrations. (Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1907.) Price 10 francs.
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Leçons de Physique générale . Nature 80, 6 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/080006b0
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