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WHEN Lord Rayleigh directs attention to the neglect among physicists of the principle of similitude (NATURE, March 18), he has perhaps forgotten the excellent paragraph in which Tait deals with the question in his “Properties of Matter.” Curiously enough, one of Lord Rayleigh's first illustrations is also Tait's, namely, the fact that the velocity of waves on deep water is as the square root of their lengths, to which Tait adds the corresponding fact that the velocity of ripples is inversely in the same proportion.
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THOMPSON, D. The Principle of Similitude. Nature 95, 202 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/095202c0
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