Abstract
THE development of a book through successive editions is very like the evolution of a species. It has to adapt itself to changed circumstances by the insertion of new material; portions cease to be of explicit use, sometimes through the acquirement of new methods that do the work better, sometimes because their applications cease to exist. For economic reasons the book will survive better the more thoroughly the new adaptations are carried out and the superfluous parts eliminated. Nevertheless vestigial traces remain.
Hydrodynamics.
By Sir Horace Lamb. Sixth edition. Pp. xv + 738. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1932.) 45s. net.
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JEFFREYS, H. Evolution of Hydrodynamics. Nature 131, 313–314 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131313a0
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