Feb. 27, 1879] 



NATURE 



ex XXV 



The Eighth Edition, revised and enlarged, pp. 938, illustrated by 4 Coloured Plates and 820 Woodcuts, 

 i^ in large crown 8vo, price 15^., cloth. 



GANOT'8 ELEMENTARY TREATISE ON PHYSICS, 



EXPEKIMENTAL AND APPLIED. 



For the Use of Colleges and Schools. 



Translated and Edited, with the Author's sanction, from Ganot's Aliments de Physique. 



By E. ATKINSON, Ph.D., F.C.S., 



Professor of Experimental Science, Staff College, Sandhurst. 



' ' This excellent and popular manual of physics has reached 

 an eighth edition, and well deserves the high position which it 

 has gained. The present edition, though enlarged by an 

 addition of over sixty pages of revised and new material, is but 

 little increased in actual size, and is even more handy and con- 

 venient than the older editions. We need say nothing of the 

 contents, which are well known, the additions being mainly those 

 needed to bring the work up to the level of the most recent 

 researches. The book is an invaluable one for the student, and 

 seeing how close is the connexion on a multitude of points 

 between physics and medicine, and how necessary an acquaint- 

 ance with physical laws is for the scientific study of medicine, 

 we would strongly commend the work as a reference-book to the 

 j brary of every practitioner." — The Lancet. 



"It is so short a time since we commended the seventh edition 

 of this book that we need only point out the latest improvements. 

 Although little has been added to the present edition, emend- 

 ations have been made wherever necessary, and the work has 

 been made more suitable for the purposes of self -instruction. 

 There are seventeen pages of new matter, and twenty-five 

 additional illustrations. Besides this, a valuable appendix is 

 given of sixteen pages of questions, systematically arranged, in 

 reference to the corresponding parts of the book, and designed 

 to serve as a sort of self-examiner to those who have not the 

 c nnortunity or advantage of formal instruction. It would be 

 difficult to speak too highly of the merits of the book, which is 

 perhaps without an equal as a text-book for those who are pre- 

 paring for the preliminary examination for the medical profession." 

 — British Medical Journal. 



"It is a question which enjoys the greatest popularity, the 



Elements de Physique, or Dr. Atkinson's translation of it. 

 Perhaps we should be almost inclined to say that the translation 

 has the best of it. This is the eighth edition, and we have no 

 doubt that it will be exhausted as rapidly as were its.seven prede- 

 cessors. We have plenty of books of the sort in English ; 

 Lardner's are about the best among popular books, but there 

 is none that rivals Ganot. Its accuracy is as great as its extent 

 is wide, and its descriptions are as intelligible and popular as 

 they are correct. Anybody who has attained a mastery, even 

 incomplete, over this remarkable book, will have laid up a store 

 of knowledge sufficient to raise him considerably above the 

 average host. To those who know the book, we need say 

 nothing in its praise. To those who do not, we can say that, 

 though scientific, it is not dry or dull ; that, though deeply learned, 

 it is as far from being uninteresting as it well can be. The deep 

 study of science is too apt to make Dryasdusts of its votaries, 

 and the consequence is that most of our scientific books are either 

 immensely valuable but unutterably dull, or else very amusing 

 but entirely useless. The one sort are written by savans, who 

 cannot, and would not if they could, make their subject attractive 

 to outsiders ; the other by men who are ignorant of what they 

 are writing about. Now and then some one, more happy than 

 his fellows, strikes the vid media, and when he does he generally 

 gets a thoroughly warm welcome. Such a welcome has always 

 been accorded to Ganot's Physics, and such a welcome this, the 

 eighth ed:tion, will meet with. Of it in particular, it is enough 

 to say that sufficient additions have been made to bring the book 

 up to the knowledge of the present time, and that the size of the 

 page has been slightly enlarged so as to increase the capacity of 

 the book, while lessening the number of its pages." — Land and 

 Water. 



BY THE SAME AUTHOR AND TRANSLATOR. 

 The Third Edition, revised and enlarged, with 2 Coloured Plates, and 454 Woodcut Illustrations, in crown 8vo, price "js. 6d. , cloth. 



GANOT'S NATURAL PHILOSOPHY 



For General Readers and Young Persons, 



Translated and Edited, with the Author's sanction, from Ganot's Cours EUmentaire de Physique. 



acoustics, heat, light, magnetism, and electricity ; and the treat- 

 ment is entirely free from mathematical formulae. The engravings 

 of the instruments and of the experiments detailed are good and 

 suggestive, and calculated to be of assistance not only to the 

 learner but to the teacher." — Nature. 



' ' A book equally well adapted for the Upper Classes of 

 Schools and as a present for boys or girls who exhibit an in- 

 terest in natural phenomena. Several pages of new matter have 

 been introduced into the current edition, amongst which we 

 notice the Telephone, which is clearly explained by the aid of 

 illustrations. " — English Mechanic. 



"We cannot refrain from testifying to the soundness of its 

 pages. The woodcuts are admirably drawn ; the type is clear 

 and distinct ; the manner in which the Author conveys his matter 

 is so pleasant that we firmly believe the book has a better destiny 

 than that of school use. We feel convinced that it will work its 

 way into all physical libraries as a trustworthy book of reference, 

 a reliable friend on the subjects of which it treats." — Electrical 

 News. 



" This is a good text-book of physics for the middle and upper 

 classes of boys' and girls' schools, embracing a familiar account 

 of physical phenomena and laws for the general reader. The 

 subjects are, the properties of matter, hydrostatics, pneumatics, 



" We are glad to notice this volume, which will prove useful 

 to a wide circle of readers and teachers, since it represents the 

 amount of knowledge required for the Matriculation examination 

 of the London University. It is divided into eight books, treating 

 respectively of the General Properties of Matter, Hydrostatics, 

 Gases, Acoustics, Heat, Light, Magnetism, and Electricity. It 

 is admirably illustrated, and throughout most clearly written. It 

 ought to be in the hands of the higher classes of all our public 

 schools, and if the principal facts it contains were early demon- 

 strated by experiment to those about to become members of the 

 medical profession we should have a far larger number of accurate 

 observers, and much fewer loose theories than at present." "^'"' 

 Lancet. 



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