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No better proof could be adduced of the general and popular interest taken in higher mathematics in countries outside Great Britain than the excellent series of manuals emanating from the firm of Hoepli in Milan. One great difficulty in acquiring a general knowledge of such subjects as analytical statics, particle and rigid dynamics, and hydrodynamics arises from the voluminous character of the principal treatises available as text-books. Most of the English standard works on such subjects were originally smallish single volumes, but they have in the course of various editions grown in size until they have reached to two large and bulky volumes. Anyone who can read Italian can now, at a cost of five shillings, obtain in Prof. Marcolongo's two little manuals a survey of such subjects as vector analysis, polhodes and herpolhodes, the ordinary and spherical catenary, planetary motion, Lagrange's equations, the theory of least action, cycloidal and compound pendulums, attractions of ellipsoids, Lagrange's and Euler's equations of hydrodynamics, and the principles of vortex motion.
Meccanica Razionale.
By Roberto Marcolongo. Vol. i., Kinematics—Statics, pp. xii + 270; vol. ii., Dynamics—Principles of Hydromechanics, pp. vi + 126. (Milan: Ulrico Hoepli, 1905.) Price 3 lire each volume.
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Meccanica Razionale . Nature 73, 318 (1906). https://doi.org/10.1038/073318a0
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