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FOR many years Prof. Crew has been lecturing to students of Northwestern University (in Evanston, a suburb of Chicago) on the history of science. He has now put his lecture notes into book form, so that they may benefit a wider circle. His book is not intended to be a serious critical study of the history of physics, but rather an outline that will enable the modern student to appreciate the labours of the pioneers of the science. This object it achieves admirably. It may occasion surprise to find that Galileo receives much more attention than does Newton, but this is probably due to the fact that the author had previously made and published an intensive study of the life of Galileo.
The Rise of Modern Physics: a Popular Sketch.
By Prof. Henry Crew. Pp. xv + 356 + 24 plates. (London: Baillière, Tindall and Cox, 1928.)
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C., L. The Rise of Modern Physics: a Popular Sketch . Nature 125, 84 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/125084d0
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