Abstract
THE first volume of Steinheil's handbook appeared twenty-eight years ago, and the promised second and third volumes of the work never materialised, probably owing to the first meeting with insufficient appreciation. The book before us is a translation of the first half of Steinheil's first volume, and the fact that a prominent member of one of our foremost optical firms (Barr and Stroud) considered it worthy of this labour is eloqv proof of the truth of a statement by the late Prof. Silvanus P. Thompson in a noted outburst:—
Applied Optics: The Computation of Optical Systems.
Being the “Handbuch der angewandten Optik” of Dr. Adolph Steinheil and Dr. Ernest Voit. Translated and edited by J. Weir French. Vol. i. Pp. xvii + 170. (London: Blackie and Son, Ltd., 1918.) Price 12s. 6d. net.
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C., A. Applied Optics: The Computation of Optical Systems . Nature 102, 61 (1918). https://doi.org/10.1038/102061a0
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