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IT is sometimes difficult to justify the publication of a new text-book on a branch of elementary science, but Mr. Calvert has been so successful in presenting the subject of heat in an attractive and yet scientific manner that his book deserves a special word of commendation. The first part is intended to cover the ground of a general school education, and the second part brings the work up to University scholarship standard. The author realises that the majority of those who begin the subject will have little or no interest in experimental determinations unless it is made clear to them, at the outset, that objectives which appear to them reasonable cannot be reached without dealing with such measurements. He quotes with approval an appropriate sentence from one of J. B. Biot's works—”Toutes ces choses ne peuvent se determiner surement que par des mesures précises que nous chercherons plus tard; mais auparavant il fallait au moins sentir le besoin de les chercher.”
Heat.
By W. J. R. Calvert. Pp. viii + 336. (London: Edward Arnold and Co., 1922.) 6s.
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Heat . Nature 111, 216 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111216a0
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