Physikalische Krystallographie und Einleitung in die krystallographische Kenntniss der wichtigeren Substazen

Abstract

PROF. GROTH has written a good book on a subject for which, if it attracts but few students in England, German universities will supply readers. It is a good book, as being written by a man whose work puts him in an authoritative position for writing it, while to anyone who is master of the small mathematical experience needed it is eminently readable, is to the point, and not too voluminous. It is moreover copiously and well illustrated. Of course, even as an Arabic chronicler of the events of his time, invariably commences his history with the origin of things, and the early traditions of mankind, so a German professor who writes on crystallo-graphic optics, of necessity devotes a good many pages to a sketch of the fundamental laws of optics and the general principles of the undulatory theory. Our author, however, while doing so never loses sight of his purpose, and a few pages so occupied are probably intended to fill a void in the training of some of those for whom the book is intended.

Physikalische Krystallographie und Einleitung in die krystallographische Kenntniss der wichtigeren Substazen.

Von P. Groth. Mit 557 Holzschnitten im Text, einer Buntdruck, und 2 lithographirten Tafeln. (Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, 1876.)