Abstract
M GARIEL, Professor of Physics at the École des Ponts et Chaussées, and better known in this country as the courteous and energetic secretary of the “Association Française,” gives us in the above work the first instalment of an extensive book which will not be completed before next year. This first instalment is introductory to the whole subject, and deals with so much of elementary theory as the author deems requisite to give a firm grasp on his subject. Not rejecting mathematics, the author prefers to keep the mathematical treatment of his subject in the background. Nevertheless, he makes good use of algebraical footnotes, and by these and other evidences it may be judged that a firm scientific grasp will be maintained upon the various branches too often treated in a loose and unscientific manner.
Traité Pratique d'Éelectricité comprenant les Applications aux Sciences et à l'Industrie.
Par C. M. Gariel. (Premier fascicule.) 200 pp., 140 figs. (Paris: Octave Doin, 1882.)
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Gariel's “Electrcity” . Nature 26, 570–571 (1882). https://doi.org/10.1038/026570a0
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