Proceedings of the Stated Meeting, held Wednesday, December 17, 1884

✍ Scribed by William P. Tatham

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1885
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 138 KB
• Volume: 119
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(85)90258-3

✦ Synopsis

Proceedings, etc. 79 plane trigonometry, and, indeed, in some few cases, in analytical geometry, though these last may be omitted without serious lack of continuity.

Part I of the work, which is before us, contains 246 pages. It gives in its introductory matter, concise, illustrated descriptions of apparatus used in the measurements of space and time. Chapter I, treats of the Mechanics of Masses. Chapter II, of Universal Attraction. Chapter III, of Molecular Mechanics , and Chapter IV, of the Mechanics of Fluids. This chapter completes Book I.

Book II which completes this part of the work, is devoted to the considemtion.of the production and nature of Heat. In it will be found full explanations of the modern ideas of heat. The closing chapter on Thermo-Dynamics is especially to be commended.

Part II will include the subjects, Electricity and Magnetism, Acoustics and Optics.

We regret that the value of this book should have been impaired by the absence of an index. We believe, however, that the authors intend placing an index at the end of the completed work. E.J.H.