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THIS little book, published in Paris in 1942, under the German occupation, is a most fitting member of the series “La Science Vivante”. It describes a realm of science the exploration of which has in the main been accomplished during and between two great wars. As in most fields of science, men of many countries have shared in the work, bringing to it knowledge and skill of varied kinds-meteorologists, physicists, mathematicians, astronomers, chemists, radio-physicists among others. Researches undertaken mainly under the impulsion of individual interest in particular aspects of the upper atmosphere have gradually converged to form a body of knowledge already largely coherent and mutually confirmatory, though many problems still remain. The subject proves to be rich and multifarious in detail and variety, and in many ways its investigation has great promise (and much present performance) in rendering practical aid of economic value in human affairs. This admirable little book gives a clear and wide summary of the subject, and though no two men can be really expert in so great a variety of studies, the authors have omitted little of special interest, and show good judgment in their occasional critical pronouncements on the more disputed topics.
De la stratosphère à I'ionosphère
Par Daniel Barbier Daniel Chalonge. (La science vivante, No. 4.) Pp. 156 + 8 plates. (Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1942.) 25 francs.
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De la stratosphère à I'ionosphère. Nature 157, 34 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157034b0
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