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TO publish a fourth edition of a scientific work thirty-five years after the appearance of the first edition is a high tribute to the author, particularly when, as in this instance, no very fundamental change has been made in the scheme of the book. It is the more notable in experimental-science, since Preston could write in 1894 that “It is but a short time since the pursuit of experimental research was regarded merely as a matter of individual curiosity”.
The Theory of Heat.
By Prof. Thomas Preston. Fourth edition, edited by J. Rogerson Cotter. Pp. xix + 836. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1929.) 25s. net.
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E., K. Preston's “Heat”. Nature 123, 755 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/123755a0
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