Abstract
A QUARTER of a century ago the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge published a small book of 125 pages on “Matter and Motion,” by Prof. Clerk Maxwell, and it is interesting to reflect that the necessity of adding the ether to the title of a new book issued by the same publishers is largely due to the important modern developments of the ideas which, in his more abstruse writings, the author of the original book suggested. There is, no doubt, a considerable demand at the present time for a book dealing in a popular way with general notions about molecules and the ether; but it is desirable that, in attempting to meet this demand, scientific accuracy no less than simple and popular treatment should be aimed at.
Matter, Ether and Motion.
A. E. Dolbear Ph.D. English edition edited by Prof. Alfred Lodge. Pp. vii + 376. (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1899.)
La Constitution du Monde, Dynamique des Atomes.
Madame Clemence Royer. Pp. xxii + 800. (Paris: Librairie C. Reinwald, 1900.)
Mutmassungen über das Wesen der Gravitation, der Elektricitäts und der Magnetismus.
Dr. med. Hermann Fischer. Pp. 42. (1899.)
Ueber mögliche Bewegungen möglicher Atome.
Dr. med. Hermann Fischer. Pp. 92. (Dresden: Hellmuth Henkler, 1900.)
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B., G. Matter, Ether and Motion La Constitution du Monde, Dynamique des Atomes Mutmassungen über das Wesen der Gravitation, der Elektricitäts und der Magnetismus Ueber mögliche Bewegungen möglicher Atome . Nature 63, 533–535 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/063533a0
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