 | Edward Charles Pickering - 1873 - 240 pages
...tars, THE FIRST TO PROPOSE A PHYSICAL LABORATORY, THIS WORK IS MOST AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED SINCERE FRIEND AND PUPIL, THE AUTHOR. PREFACE. THE rapid spread...errors present in all physical experiments. A short description is also given of the various methods of measuring distances, time and weights, which, in... | |
 | Edward Charles Pickering - 1875 - 248 pages
...Librarian of Congress, Washington. TO m. mm, THE FIRST TO PROPOSE A PHYSICAL LABORATORY, THIS WOHK IS MOST AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED SINCEUE FRIEND AND...errors present in all physical experiments. A short description is also given of the various methods of measuring distances, time and weights, which, in... | |
 | Edward Charles Pickering - 1877 - 278 pages
...eliminating many of the errors, which in a work of its character would otherwise be so difficult to avoid. The preliminary chapter is devoted to general methods...Some new developments of it are moreover inserted. A short description is also given of the various methods of measuring distances, time, and weights,... | |
 | Edward Charles Pickering - 1884 - 250 pages
...tars. THE FIRST TO PROPOSE A PHYSICAL LABORATORY, THIS WORK IS MOST AFFECTIONATELY INSCR1BED SINCERE FRIEND AND PUPIL, THE AUTHOR. PREFACE. THE rapid spread...of fundamental importance that the student should olearly understand how to deal with his- observations, and reduce them, and that he should be familiar... | |
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FRIEND AND PUPIL, THE AUTHOR. PREFACE. THE rapid spread of the Laboratory System of teaching Physics, both in this country and abroad, seems to render imperative the demand for a special text-book, to be used by the student. To meet this want the present... 