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THIS scholarly treatise emanates from the School of History, Methods and Principles of Science at University College, London, and its authors must surely have devoted many hours of patient study and research among the original eighteenth century works in order to obtain the material for their book. As Prof. E. N. da C. Andrade, ha his eulogistic preface points out, the subject of the book is no less than tho very foundation of the modern science of heat. Most of tho writings to which reference has been made have been consulted in tho original languages, including the Swedish of Wilcke. Tho authors have established by these studies that his work, while independent of Black's, was “both later and less satisfactory”. The credit for the discovery of specific and latent heat may therefore be fully attributed to Black.
The Discovery of Specific and Latent Heats
By Dr. Douglas McKic Niels H. de V. Heathcote. Pp. 155H + 6 plates. (London: Edward Arnold and Co., 1935.) 6s. net.
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L., H. The Discovery of Specific and Latent Heats. Nature 136, 244 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136244b0
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