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IN this book the principles of natural science are taught and enforced in a scientific manner by means of a course of experimental work, simple in character, but involving quantitative measurements, and carried out personally by the student. To begin with, lengths are measured with an ordinary rule, and tests are made in order to find out the limits of accuracy within which the measurements may be relied on. These measurements serve as an introduction to “physical arithmetic,” or simple arithmetical computations specially suitable for dealing with numbers which are avowedly only approximately correct. Then follows a chapter on elementary mensuration involving the estimation of angles, lengths, areas, and volumes, the balance very wisely sharing in this work.
A Further Course of Practical Science.
By J. H. Leonard W. H. Salmon. Pp. ix + 224. (London: John Murray, 1904.) Price 2s.
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A Further Course of Practical Science . Nature 71, 220 (1905). https://doi.org/10.1038/071220b0
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