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An Account of the Principles of Measurement and Calculation

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THIS is a somewhat difficult book to review, and we are not quite certain that its title adequately describes its contents. In the first place, we may note that ‘Calculation’ seems here to denote a process quite different from the arithmetical investigations with which many of us are accustomed to associate the term. In his Chapter xii. Dr. Campbell gives the equations:

An Account of the Principles of Measurement and Calculation.

By Dr. Norman R. Campbell. Pp. x + 293. (London: Longmans, Green and Co., Ltd., 1928.) 12s. 6d. net.

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An Account of the Principles of Measurement and Calculation . Nature 122, 598–600 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122598a0

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