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EXCELLENT courses of practical work in the rudiments of mensuration and physics are now available in several text-books, but there is still room for volumes like the present one. The exercises described are suitable for quite young beginners, and they will serve the double purpose of applying the pupils' knowledge of arithmetic and developing a scientific frame of mind. Simple measurements of length, area and volume, and calculations (particularly with decimals) referring to them, form the subjects of the opening chapters. Following these are laboratory exercises on weight and centre of gravity, relative weight, atmospheric pressure, thermal expansion, thermometers, latent heat, filtration, solution and distillation.
A First Course of Practical Science.
By J. H. Leonard Pp. xii + 138. (London: John Murray, 1901.)
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A First Course of Practical Science . Nature 65, 151 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/065151c0
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