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MR. BOWEN writes in his preface that “the second edition of this book has the same aim as the first : to present modern ideas of matter and light as far as possible in non-mathematical form. . . . Wave mechanics is a difficult subject which cannot by its intrinsic nature be conveyed in a pictorial form, yet such a theoretically unsound task is what is attempted here”. There can be no doubt that Mr. Bowen has succeeded in his task ; moreover, the task itself has increased in magnitude since the first edition was published ; and, in general, wave mechanical topics have been treated more deeply in the second edition.
The Chemical Aspects of Light
E. J. Bowen. Second edition revised. Pp. iv + 300. (Oxford: Clarendon Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1946.) 15s. net.
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BAMFORD, C. CHEMISTRY AND LIGHT. Nature 159, 46 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/159046a0
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