SMALL books on practical physics have been very plentiful of recent years since the subject has taken a place in school, but the number of large and complete treatises in English embracing all ...

IT is some twenty-five years since the first edition of this book was reviewed in these columns. In several subsequent editions, including the present one, it has undergone some revision, chiefly ...

One of the evergreen topics in my social-media circles has to do with the relationship between physics and philosophy, which generally comes up in the form of accusations that physicists are too ...