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THIS month's magazines contain numerous articles on scientific topics or with scientific bearings. Röntgen photography naturally forms the theme of several contributions. The Quarterly Review contains a short descriptive account of methods employed, results obtained, and theories propounded, and even blossoms into illustrations reproduced from radiographs taken by Mr. A. A. C. Swinton. The Century Magazine has “a Symposium on the Röntgen Rays,” the writers being T. C. Martin, R. W. Wood, Elibu Thomson, Sylvanus P. Thompson, J. C. McLennan, W. J. Morton, and Thomas A. Edison. The result of this composite article is vain repetition of experimental conditions, and a confusion of tongues; Prof. Thompson referring to pictures obtained by Röntgen rays as “sciographs,” while other writers describe them as “shadowgraphs,” and all the illustrations are designated “cathodgraphs.”
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Science in the Magazines. Nature 54, 41–42 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/054041b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/054041b0