The New Physics and Its Evolution

ator

eral of Public Instruction who are charged with the duty of visiting the different universities and lycées in France and of reporting upon the state of the studies there pursued. Hence he is in an excellent position to appreciate at its proper

nce within a compass of some 300 pages has, perhaps, made the facts here noted assimilable with difficulty by the untrained reader. To remedy this as far as possible, I have prefixed to the present translation a table of contents so extended as to form a fairly complete digest of the book, whil

ED

ON OF GREAT BRI

r's P

been propounded, that those who follow with interest the progress of science, and even some professed scholars,

known the general results at which physicists have lately arrived, and to indicate the direction and import which should be ascribed to those speculations on the c

d, above all, to show how the ideas prevailing at the present day have been formed, by tracing their evolut

essary definitions and set forth the fundamental facts. Moreover, while strictly employing exact expressions, I have avoided the use

ny great omissions from this little volume;

electrical phenomena, the relations between electricity and optics, as also the theories of ionization, the electronic hypothesis, etc., have been treated at some length; but it has not been tho