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THIS volume completes the third supplement to the fifth edition of the well-known “Landolt-Bornstein” tables and makes available a mass of physical and chemical data including work published so late as March 1936. The growth of this standard work of reference demonstrates the remarkable expansion of the physical sciences in our time. The fifth edition was first published in 1923; it occupied two volumes and 1,695 pages. The first supplement appeared in 1927 with 919 pages, the second in 1931 consisted of two volumes and 1,707 pages, whilst the third supplement which began to appear in 1935 has grown to three volumes and 3,039 pages. Prof. Roth and Prof. Scheele, to whom we are indebted for this work, must feel the satisfaction of a great task well accomplished; at the same time they must view with some dismay the probable dimensions of the next supplement in 1939-40.
Landolt-Börnstein Physikalisch-chemische Tabellen
Fünfte, umgearbeitete und vermehrte Auflage. Ergänzungsband 3. Herausgegeben von Prof. Dr. W. A. Roth und Prof. Dr. K. Scheel. Teil 3, Hälfte 1. Pp. xvi + 1815 2352. Teil 3, Hälfte 2. Pp. 2353–3039, (Berlin: Julius Springer, 1936.) 188 gold marks.
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S., S. Landolt-Börnstein Physikalisch-chemische Tabellen. Nature 139, 93 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139093a0
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