Introduction to the history of science, volume 1, from Homer to Omar Khayyam: By George Sarton, Associate in the History of Science, Carnegie Institution of Washington, xi–839 pages, large 8vo. Baltimore, The Williams and Wilkins Company, Price, $10

✍ Scribed by Henry Leffmann

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1927
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 185 KB
• Volume: 204
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(27)91349-0

✦ Synopsis

BOOK REVIEWS. 13I

sphere with the angles of an imaginary equilateral tetrahedron. He demonstrated to the meeting how this model could be used for illustrating the structure of both fatty and aromatic compounds. As is now well known, the model has been simplified into the regular tetrahedron and largely used in the illustration of the structure of carbon compounds. HENRY LEFFMANN.