Abstract
‘SCIENCE for All’ is the reaction against undue specialisation in the schools, but there is the danger of making the subject so discursive that it ceases to be science. Mr. Jamieson's attempt to provide a broader survey of science for Australian schools consists in the main of an account of some of the great discoveries in chemistry, physics, and astronomy, with adequate and interesting historical details; while every opportunity is seized to introduce pieces of information. Thus, thirtyseven pages on energy include the spectrum, voltaic cells, Gay Lussac's law of volumes, oxidising agents, hydrocarbons, isomorphism, magnetism, galvanometers, dynamos, radium, lenses and telescopes, and end with the periscope of a submarine. While much can be said in favour of such a course, we suggest that to sacrifice depth of culture to obtain breadth is not a scientific method of producing a good harvest.
Elementary General Physical Science.
W. R.
Jamieson
By. Pp. xi + 63 + 88 + 147 + x + 16 plates. (Melbourne and London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1927.) 8s. 6d. net.
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Elementary General Physical Science. Nature 121, 495 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/121495c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/121495c0