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IT is pleasant to meet an old friend still going strong in spite of years and changing fashions. In these days of rapid progress a quarter of a century is a long period in the life of a boob dealing with a living science. The secret of the continued popularity of Preston's work is no doubt to be found in the fact that the book was written as a labour of love in the interests of true scientific education, instead of being merely compiled to suit an arbitrary standard or syllabus, adapted to a particular type of student, or a special limit of mathematical attainment. The object has been to give a comprehensive survey of the development of the theory of heat from an historical point of view, which possesses many advantages in the exposition of a scientific subject.
The Theory of Heat.
By Prof. Thomas Preston. Third edition. Edited by J. Rogerson Cotter. Pp. xix + 840. (Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1919.) Price 25s. net.
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C., H. The Theory of Heat . Nature 105, 228 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/105228a0
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