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THIS is an elementary but not a rudimentary treatise. The aim of the author has evidently been to present as completely as possible the fundamental principles and facts which form the groundwork of physics (including mechanics). It can be confidently recommended to any second or third year student of experimental physics who is familiar with German. The mathematics in it is of a very elementary character; the author relies, in fact, not on mathematical demonstrations, but on general descriptions aided by diagrams. Many of these diagrams are very well conceived, and materially assist the description in the text. The author is fond of the use of analogies, and we think him very successful in employing them. We were rather surprised to find the Boer war figuring as one of these analogues.
Lehrbuch der experimental Physik in elementarer Darstellung.
By Dr. Arnold Berliner. Pp. xvi + 857; with plates and illustrations. (Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1903.) Price 14 marks.
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Lehrbuch der experimental Physik in elementarer Darstellung . Nature 70, 317 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/070317c0
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