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ONE hundred and twenty-nine gold marks may seem a very stiff price to pay for a scientific book even when advantage may be taken of the new facilities for purchasing German books at 25 per cent discount, but the present volume is exceptional in many ways. It contains some 1200 pages of excellently printed matter, and the subjects treated are such that it could not well have been inexpensively produced. It is well supplied with tables and diagrams, and little or no attempt has been made to save expense by undue curtailment of the mathematical treatment. One may legitimately look at the six chapters and ask oneself, in considering the cost, how much one would expect to pay for the excellent 300 page treatise on the electron theory of metals by Sommer-feld and Bethe, if it were issued in separate covers; or, again, what would be the market price of a book of 200 pages on atomic structure and chemistry, by Grimm and Wolff.
Aufbau der zusammenhangenden Materie
Redigiert von A. Smekal. Pp. xiv + 1203. (” Handbuch der Physik”. Herausgegeben von H. Geiger und Karl Scheel. Zweite Auflage. Bd. 24, Teil 2.) (Berlin: Julius Springer, 1933.) 129 gold marks.
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B., L. Aufbau der zusammenhangenden Materie. Nature 136, 973 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136973a0
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