Abstract
PROF. SCHUSTER has done excellent service to teachers and students alike by publishing this book, which fills a very obvious gap. It is an introduction to the theory, and purposely does not deal with details of methods of measurement or instrumental appliances; these are properly left to courses of laboratory instruction. At the same time the necessity for experiments and observations is everywhere present to the author's mind. The book is not a mere mathematical treatise on simple harmonic motion; indeed, the analysis is generally easy, and purely mathematical difficulties are avoided. Prof. Schuster writes as a physicist. The physical meaning of the steps and processes employed is everywhere insisted on, and the student is made to think throughout.
An Introduction to the Theory of Optics.
By Prof. A. Schuster Pp. xv + 340. (London: Edward Arnold, 1904.) Price 15s. net.
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An Introduction to the Theory of Optics . Nature 71, 457–458 (1905). https://doi.org/10.1038/071457a0
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