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The revised edition highlights discoveries such as radioactivity and the electron, explaining how events from earlier times remain essential to understanding. It also addresses limitations of distant versus recent perspectives and describes that the revision includes substantial additions and alterations to earlier coverage, supported by scholarly suggestions.","RIAR CLIFF COLLEGE  \n10UX CITY,IOWA  \n4  \n# A HISTORY OF PHYSICS\n\nTHE MACMILLAN COMPANYNEW YORK·BOSTON·CHICAGO·DALLASATLANTA·SAN FRANCISCO  \nMACMILLAN AND CO.,LIMITEDLONDON·BOMBAY·CALCUTTA·MADRASMELBOURNE  \nTHE MACMILLAN COMPANYOF CANADA,LIMITED  \nTORONTO  \nA HISTORY OF PHYSICS  \n# IN ITS ELEMENTARY BRANCHES\n\nINCLUDING THE  \n# EVOLUTION OF PHYSICAL LABORATORIES\n\nBY  \nFLORIAN CAJORI,PH.D.  \nPROFESSOR OF THE HISTORY OF MATHEMATICSIN′THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA  \nREVISED AND ENLARGED EDITION  \nNeu lnrk  \nTHE MACMILLAN COMPANYI938  \nCoPYRIGHT,1899,AND 1929,By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.  \nCoPYRIGHT,1927,Br FLORIAN CAJORI.  \nAll rights reserved—no part of this book may bereproduced in any form without permission in writingfrom the publisher,except by a reviewer who wishesto quote brief passages in connection with a reviewwritten for inclusion in magazine or newspaper.  \nSet up and electrotyped.Published January,1899.Revised and enlarged edition,January,1929.  \n7  \nC13  \n/34 66  \n# PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION\n\nSINCE the first appearance of this History,many things havehappened in the development of physies.To young studentsof science the discovery of radioactivity and the introductionof the electron are not happenings of their own time,but areevents of the past fully as much as are Galileo's experimentson falling bodies and Newton's law of gravitation.For thisreason it is desirable to present to the younger students thehistoric outline which to the older generation is part andparcel of its own intellectual life and experience.  \nThe task of deseribing the principal achievements inphysics of the present century has been a diffieult one.Ex-periments and hypotheses which seem important now mayappear insignifieant later.On recent events we .lack per-spective.The historic presentation of recent movements mustnecessarily be of only transient value.But a near view isbetter perhaps than no view at all.  \nThe revision of this book does not consist simply in theannexation of new material relating to the researches madein the present century.Many additions and alterations havebeen made in the earlier part of this History.  \nI am indebted to Dr.V.F.Lenzen of the University ofCalifornia for valuable suggestions and for assistance in thereading of proof.FLORIAN CAJORI.  \n、University of California,December,1928.  \n# PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION\n\nTHIs history is intended mainly for the use of students andteachers of physics.The writer is convinced that some atten-tion to the history of a science helps to make it attractive,andthat the general view of the development of the human intel-lect,obtained by reading the history of science,is in itselfstimulating and liberalizing.  \nIn the announcement of Ostwald's Klassiker der EæaktenWissenschaften is the following,significant statement:\"While,by the present methods of teaching,a knowledge of science inits present state of advancement is imparted very successfully,eminent and far-sighted men have repeatedly been obliged topoint out a defect which too often attaches to the presentscientific education of our youth.It is the absence of the his-torical sense and the want of knowledge of the great researchesupon which the edifice of science rests.\"  \nIt is hoped that the survey of the progress of physics herepresented may assist in remedying this defect so clearlypointed out by Professor Ostwald.  \nAs it seems best not to increase the size of the book beyondthe limit originally intended,it is necessary to omit a fewsubjects which properly belong to elementary physics  \nIt gives me great pleasure to acknowledge my obligations toMr.S.J.Barnett,Ph.D.,and Mr.P.E.Doudna,A.M.,of Col-orado College,for assistance in proof-reading and for impor-tant suggestions and eriticisms.  \nF.C.  \nColorado College,Colorado Springs,November,1898.","cbCaivzd0rtOC4tF","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaivzd0rtOC4tF","pdf",21904969,1,448,"English","en",105,"# Preface to the Revised Edition\n# Preface to the First Edition","[{\"question\":\"Who is the author and what editions are included?\",\"answer\":\"The book is by Florian Cajori and includes a preface for the revised edition and a preface for the first edition. 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