WE propose in the present article to carry out the intention expressed in a former number (vol. xii. p. 206) of giving fuller details of the practical instruction in physics, which forms a part of the ...

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THIS is the third part of a course of practical physics, the two previous ones dealing with heat and general physics. A fourth part, on electricity and magnetism, will complete the work. The optical ...