| Charles Reiner - 1837 - 246 pages
...College, London. 400 Illustrations. Small 8vo, 5s. "The book could not have been entrusted to anyone better calculated to preserve the terse and lucid...work to the present state of scientific knowledge. All we can say of the Editor's actual labours, is, that he has added much new matter to the old text,... | |
| 1867 - 682 pages
...Physics in University College, London. New Edition, Seventh Thotuand.i0.all 8vo. 400111 mirations, us. " The book could not have been entrusted to any one...calculated to preserve the terse and lucid style of bardner, while correcting M« errors, and briugirg up hin work to the present •'ate oí scientific... | |
| Dionysius Lardner - 1856 - 270 pages
...College, London. 400 Illustrations. Small 8vo, 53. "The book could not have been entrusted to anyone better calculated to preserve the terse and lucid...work to the present state of scientific knowledge. All we can say of the Editor's actual labours, is, that he has added much new matter to the old text,... | |
| George Hamilton Gordon Earl of Aberdeen - 1860 - 174 pages
...Edition. Edited by GEO. CAREY FOSTER, BA, FCS With 400 Illustrations. Small 8vo, cloth, price 55. " The book could not have been entrusted to any one...scientific knowledge." — Popular Science Review. Mechanics. THE HANDBOOK OF MECHANICS. \Reprinting. Hydrostatics. THE HANDBOOK of HYDROSTATICS and PNEUMATICS.... | |
| George Drysdale Dempsey - 1865 - 202 pages
...Edition. Edited by GEO. CAREY FOSTER, BA, FCS With 4CK) Illustrations. Small 8vo, cloth, price 5s. " The book could not have been entrusted to any one...scientific knowledge." — Popular Science Review. Mechanics. THE HANDBOOK OF MECHANICS. {.Reprinting. Hydrostatics. THE HANDBOOK of HYDROSTATICS and... | |
| Dionysius Lardner - 1865 - 442 pages
...College, London. 400 Illustrations. Small 8vo, 55. " The book could not have been entrusted to anyone better calculated to preserve the terse and lucid...work to the present state of scientific knowledge. All we can say of the Editor-s actual labours, is, that he has added much new matter to the old text,... | |
| James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - 1866 - 594 pages
...fact that the volume just presented to the public has been revised and edited by Professor Foster. The book could not have been entrusted to any one...terse and lucid style of Lardner, while correcting his * " Handbook of Natural Philosophy." By DIONTSIÜS LARDNER, DCL " Electricity, Magnetism, and Acoustics."... | |
| James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - 1866 - 584 pages
...edited by G. Carey Foster. BA, FCS, Professor in University College. London : Walton & Maberly. 1866. errors and bringing up his work to the present state of scientific knowledge. All we can say of the editor's actual labours is, that he has added much new matter to the old text,... | |
| Dionysius Lardner - 1867 - 308 pages
...not have been entrusted to anyone better calculated to preserve the terse and lucid style of Lardncr, while correcting his errors, and bringing up his work to the present state of scientific knowledge. All we can say of the Editor-s actual labours, ist that he has added much new matter to the old text,... | |
| C. Haughton Gill - 1869 - 344 pages
...Experimental Physics in University College, London. Eighth Thousand. Small 8vo., with 400 Illustrations, 5s. " The book could not have been entrusted to any one...work to the present state of scientific knowledge. The work addresses itself to those who, without a profound knowledge of mathematics, desire to be familiar... | |
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