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WE draw attention to this number specially for the benefit of such as are interested in the early history of arithmetic. It contains (pp. 161-194) an able paper by M. Paul Tannery (who is known by his previous similar work upon the “Collection Mathématique” of Pappus in tome iii. pp. 351, &c., of these same Mémoires) on “l'Arith-métique des Grecs dans Héron d'Alexandrie.” He goes carefully into the question of the authenticity of the several so-called Heronian writings, and analyses those which he accepts, and concludes with one or two specimens of the approximate methods employed. We need only mention the names of Cantor, Martin, Hultsch, and Rodet as being those of the authors whose works and statements are discussed. Other papers are: M. Hautreux, “Etudes météorologiques de la Gironde à la Plata”; M. Millardet, “Pourridie et Phylloxera; étude comparative de ces deux maladies de la vigne”; M. Royer, “Récherches sur le passage du mercure à travers les liquides”; and M. Ponsot, “De la reconstitution et du greffage des vignes.” From this enumeration it will be seen that some of the papers are of a very practical character, touching the interests of the commonalty. M. Debrun contributes a short note (and illustration), “Sur un nouveau baromètre amplificateur.”
Mémoires de la Société des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles de Bordeaux
2e série, tome iv. 2e cahier. (Bordeaux: 1881.)
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Mémoires de la Société des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles de Bordeaux . Nature 25, 408 (1882). https://doi.org/10.1038/025408c0
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