Abstract
DURING the years 1890 to 1896 Winkelmann published a famous handbook on physics, which reappeared in a new edition in the years 1901 to 1909. When, about six years ago, a third edition was called for, the growth of material to be treated led to the division of the single handbook into a series of handbooks, each dealing with different domains, under separate editors. Among their subjects are electricity and magnetism, physical optics, and mechanics (physical and technical). The last of these, which is the subject of this brief notice, comprises seven volumes, some of them divided into parts separately published (these cannot be separately purchased, each volume being sold as a whole). Some part of each volume has appeared, and some volumes, but not all, are complete. The work is remarkable in its scope, and is well printed and illustrated. Probably few individual teachers or students could afford to possess a copy of so large a work, which is necessarily expensive, but in scientific libraries, whether academic or industrial, it deserves a place. Its great merit is that it brings together, in an easily accessible and assimilable form, a large body of scattered knowledge on mechanics, together with references to sources of fuller information. The first two volumes deal with the general principles and main results in kinematics, dynamics and statics, and mechanism, and conclude with an interesting account of physiological (including human) mechanics and mechanism.
Handbuch der physikalischen und technischen Mechanik.
Prof. Dr.
F.
Auerbach
Prof. Dr.
W.
Hort
Herausgegeben von. Band 1: Technische und physikalische Mechanik starrer Systeme, Teil 1. Lieferung 1. Pp. ix + 306. Lieferung 2. Pp. viii + 307–694. Lieferung 3. Pp. 695â787 + xviii. Band 1, vollstÃndig, 80 gold marks. Band 2: Technische und physikalische Mechanik starrer Systeme, Teil 2. Lieferung 1. Pp. viii + 404. Lieferung 2. Pp. xiv + 405–673. Band 2, vollstÃndig, 75 gold marks. (Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1927â1930.)
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Handbuch der physikalischen und technischen Mechanik . Nature 130, 8 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130008a0
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