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“THE works comprised in this series,” the editors tell us, “will all be composed with special reference to their use in school-teaching; but, at the same time, particular attention will be given to making the information contained in them trustworthy and accurate, and to presenting it in such a way that it may serve as a basis for more advanced study.”
Practical Physics, Molecular Physics, and Sound.
By Frederick Guthrie, Professor of Physics in the Royal School of Mines, London. (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1878.) [London Science Class-Books, edited by G. Carey Foster, F.R.S., and Philip Magnus, B.Sc., B.A.]
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MAXWELL, J. Practical Physics, Molecular Physics, and Sound . Nature 19, 311–312 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/019311a0
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