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The progress of a science depends upon the intellectual calibre of the,men who pursue it: that determines what shall be written for them as well as by them. It is therefore significant for meteorology that a text-book on the thermodynamics of the atmosphere should be added to a collection recently enriched by treatises on meteorological optics and on the foundations of dynamical meteorology. Special phases of the subject have been treated at some length by Helmholtz, Hertz, von Bezold, and others, but their papers are scattered among different scientific journals, rarely accessible in a single library. Dr. Wegener's treatise, which has been written with the object of giving a systematic account of the existing knowledge and methods, should therefore be generally welcomed.
Thermodynamik der Atmosphére.
Dr. A. Wegener. Pp. viii + 331. (Leipzig: J. A. Barth, 1911.) Price 11 marks.
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Thermodynamik der Atmosphäre . Nature 90, 31 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/090031a0
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