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A BOOK on elementary mechanics, which commences by addressing the reader as my young friend, and immediately after, in a lengthy paragraph, draws a comparison between the student and the axolotl, does not seem very promising as a scientific work. This feeling is strengthened when a little further on, in speaking of the laws of motion, one of the authors writes:—
The Elements of Mechanics. A Text-Book for Colleges and Technical Schools.
By W. S. Franklin B. Macnutt. Pp. xi + 283. (New York: The Macmillan Co.; London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1907.) Price 6s. 6d. net.
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C., E. The Elements of Mechanics A Text-Book for Colleges and Technical Schools . Nature 77, 29 (1907). https://doi.org/10.1038/077029b0
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