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THIS is the fourth volume of the series. The three which preceded it dealt with subjects in advanced physics. In the first of these, which discussed the most recent of the recent advances, it was a matter for thankfulness to find that the title “The New Physics” never once appeared. It is probably due to the much greater popular interest which is taken in scientific subjects in the present century, as compared with that taken in the past century, that the phrase has now come into very frequent use. Yet in the past century great and even revolutionary advances, without which the now recent advances could scarcely have matured, were made in physics. Nevertheless, these were spoken of with reticence as ‘recent advances in physical science’, though time has placed them as the greatest at that date since Newton's day. There is only one physics developing continuously as time progresses. Had Newton been asked if his Laws were observed in sub-atomic dynamics, he would very certainly have said that he had no data on which to found an answer.
Magnetic Phenomena: an Elementary Treatise.
By Prof. Samuel Robinson Williams. (International Series in Physics.) Pp. xxii + 230. (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc.; London: McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., Ltd., 1931.) 15s.net.
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PEDDIE, W. Modern Views on Magnetism. Nature 128, 623 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/128623a0
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