Lectures on some recent advances in physical science : with a special lecture on force / by P.G. Tait.

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1885
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    In preparing a Third Edition for the press, I have adhered to my original plan of publishing these Lectures just as they were taken down by the short-hand writers. I have, however, altered here and there a mere word or two, and in a few places, where it appeared to be called for, I have added an explanatory sentence. Other brief additions [enclosed in square brackets] deal chiefly with facts which have been discovered since the Second Edition (a very large one) was published. I have not reprinted the polemical part of the Preface to that edition. Professor Zollner's charges, there alluded to, were withdrawn by himself:—while those of Professor Clausius were so fully met by me in the Philosophical Magazine for May 1879 that his reply has not, so far as I know, even yet appeared. And the reference to Mohr's work has been amplified, and embodied in the text of the book. Here my Preface might have ended, had it not been that a new critic has appeared on the scene, in the form of Professor du Bois-Reymond, who, in his capacity of Secretary to the Royal Academy of Sciences of Berlin, considered himself justified in speaking as follows at