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THIS book is intended for young people from, sixteen to eighteen years of age, and consequently deals with physics of an elementary standard. It is for, use in the classroom rather than in the ...

THE first edition of Dr. Knott's text-book of physics was reviewed in the issue of NATURE for April 15, 1897 (vol. lv., p. 557). Since its first appearance radium has been discovered, and the demand ...