Abstract
DR. DARROW'S capacity for making rough places smooth is well known and is admirably shown in this popular exposition of modern advances in physical science. For the most part he has chosen to be guided by the motto which Kamerlingh Onnes proposed for physics, Door meten tot weten, "through measuring to knowing''— a phrase that carries one back to the fifty-year-old pronouncement of Kelvin that it is not until you have measured a physical quantity that you can really begin to say you know something about it. There is room for very pretty argument in both statements ; the shape of the earth—sphere, spheroid, ellipsoid, and finally, with a gesture of despair, ge-oid—has become more elusive as precision of measurement has increased ; but that may be let pass for the nonce.
The Renaissance of Physics
By Dr. Karl K. Darrow. Pp. viii + 306 + 17 plates. (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1936.) 12s. 6d. net.
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F., A. The Renaissance of Physics. Nature 142, 92–93 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142092a0
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