Physics, like all of science, is not merely analytic. Its power of analysis is best demonstrated
in its synthetic successes, the design of new questions, new experiments, even new devices …

The appearance of this guide to the vast amount of reading matter and the complex
publishing pattern of physical science literature will be welcomed by the librarians and …

There are a vast number of detailed and comprehensive histories, both of general science
and of special departments of science. Most of these are admirable for the scientific reader …

IN the following pages I have endeavoured to give, in terms as simple as the nature of the
subject will permit, a connected account of the leading principles of modern physical …