Abstract
THE degree to which specialisation has been advanced in every branch of science, coupled with the not unnatural desire on the part of university teachers to equip their students with the necessary technical knowledge to encourage further advances in even more specialised fields, tends to discourage students of science from delving into the history of the earlier developments of their particular subject matter, particularly if this knowledge has to be culled from a large number of different works, not always easily accessible. For some time past attention has been given to remedying this defect. The University of London has founded a chair in the ‘history of science,’ and already several excellent volumes have been published giving a broad survey of the outstanding contributions of scientific investigators to the progress of scientific thought and the harnessing of natural forces in the service of men. The Cambridge University Press and other publishing houses have also printed series of volumes with the same object in view.
A Short History of Physics.
By H. Buckley. Pp. xi + 263. (London: Methuen and Co., Ltd., 1927.) 7s. 6d. net.
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C., A. A Short History of Physics . Nature 121, 823–824 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/121823a0
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