Jahrbuch der Erfindungen

Abstract

THIS is one of a type of books which is not published in this country, either because our publishers are not sufficiently energetic, or because our public has not as yet sufficient interest in science. We may hope that in the yearly volumes of a periodical like NATURE, the general reader will find everything brought down to the latest date, with a sufficiently clear account of all important discoveries. There is needed, however, a sort of “bird's-eye view” book of the year's work, in which a great deal that emerges every week and is of little permanent importance, may be left out, and really considerable discoveries alone given. It is necessary, besides, that the narrative of these discoveries should not be written from the point of view of the man of science, who knows at once where to place them in relation to his previous knowledge. A brief account must be added of that part of what has been accepted or known which the new-acquisition illustrates, supplements, or contradicts.

Jahrbuch der Erfindungen.

H. Hirzel H. Gretschel. (Leipzig: Quandt und Händel, 1869.)