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“THE first business of an author,” says Dr. Lanchester in the preface, “is to state clearly the object of his work. … This book is written with the primary object of helping the young engineer to acquire a sound knowledge of dimensional theory, a subject which he can no longer afford to ignore.” Although the subject forms a part of the curriculum of the engineering courses in all universities, the author maintains that subversive doctrines are being taught, and one of the avowed objects of the book is “to extirpate heresy of this kind”, a job which he sets about with evident zest.
The Theory of Dimensions and its Application for Engineers
By Dr. F. W. Lanchester. Pp. xxiv + 314. (London: Crosby Lockwood and Son, Ltd., 1936.) 12s. 6d. net.
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HOWE, G. The Theory of Dimensions . Nature 139, 45–48 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139045a0
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