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THE companion volume to this—“Electricity treated Experimentally”—is known to most teachers of physics; The present work aims at giving (1) an elementary account, with easy experiments, of the general laws of heat; (2) a brief account of the classic researches of Regnault, Joule, and other eminent investigators; (3) a description of the theory of heat comprehensible to students whose mathematical range does not extend beyond elementary trigonometry. This laudable design is satisfactorily realised. Mr. Cumming writes clearly; in other words, he knows what to say and how to say it. The experiments described are all workable and well arranged, hence the book is one which may be used in science classes with confidence and pleasure.
Heat treated Experimentally.
By Linnaeus Cumming. (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1894.)
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 50, 569 (1894). https://doi.org/10.1038/050569c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/050569c0