Handbuch der Radiologie

Abstract

THERE exists scarcely any branch of science which is not indebted to Germany, not only for important original contributions to its progress, but also for the publication of excellent and comprehensive treatises. With the appearance of this sixth volume, another of these so-called handbooks reaches com pletion. It is now some years since the last of the previous volumes was published, and it is evident, from the remarks made by the general editor, Dr. Marx, that this volume has only reached completion after much delay and the surmounting of many difficulties. That this should be so is scarcely surprising. From the theoretical point of view, modern physics is in a peculiar position. The two rival theories—the older classical theory and the more modern quantum hypothesis—have each met with marked success in interpreting observed results, but we are still very much in the dark as to the real connexion between the two. Where one fails the other as often as not succeeds. We must therefore be prepared, in such a volume as this, to find, not so much a logical development, but rather a series of attempts at correlating observed phenomena in terms of one or other of the two main lines of thought; and this indeed we. actually find.

Handbuch der Radiologie.

Prof. Dr. Erich Marx. Band 6: Die Theorien der Radiologie. Bearbeitet von M. Laue, P. Zeeman, H. A. Lorentz, A. Sommerfeld und G. Wentzel, Georg Joos, E. Riecke, L. Vegard, P. Debye. Pp. xi + 806. (Leipzig: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft m.b.H., 1925.) 40 gold marks.