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So many volumes containing courses of work in practical physics have lately appeared, that it would hardly seem necessary to increase their number. But a critical examination of the present volume is sufficient to afford justification for adding the book to those previously available. The author succeeded Prof. Worthington at Clifton College, and has carried on the work commenced there of making practical physics a subject practicable for junior students. The experiments described are thus not of the kind invented by the arm-chair philosopher—now happily becoming extinct—but those which have stood the test of experience, and have proved to be suitable for the class of students expected to perform them.
An Introduction to Practical Physics for Use in Schools.
By D. Rintoul Pp. xx+166. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1898.)
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An Introduction to Practical Physics for Use in Schools. Nature 59, 51 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/059051a0
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